{"product_id":"sailing-towards-poland-with-joseph-conrad-9781433127526","title":"Sailing towards Poland with Joseph Conrad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published in \u003cem\u003eKuryer Polski\u003c\/em\u003e (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the Czech Republic) on 26 August 1915, Conrad himself declared about the nineteenth-century Polish poets: Krasinski, Mickiewicz and Slowacki. Their words are everything for me. I was raised and formed by them. Yet, the Polish sources deeply rooted in Conrad's works have been scantily acknowledged and hardly explored, although notable intertextual theorists have argued that the ultimate understanding of the text comes from the intertext(s).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first part of this book analyzes Conrad's first novel, \u003cem\u003eAlmayer's Folly\u003c\/em\u003e, and four of his greatest works: \u003cem\u003eLord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUnder Western Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e. Unearthing the cache of Polish references in these works enhances our intellect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a captivating new book, Jean M. Szczypien’s important work deftly reinstates Conrad’s enduring attachment to, as well as complex relationship with his native Poland. In its range and depth the book goes much further than to suggest the presence of Conrad’s Polish ‘background’ in his fiction. Szczypien’s deep and extensive research reveals the subtle character of Conrad’s relationship to Poland and Polish literature. Each chapter delivers a welcome addition to Conrad studies and an expert assessment of the intertexts and traces of the Polish literary and linguistic contexts of Conrad’s work. Szczypien shows the way in which the language and content of Polish texts, philosophical ideas, and political skepticism, especially of the Romantic period, resonate throughout Conrad’s fiction and letters.” Susan Jones, Fellow and Tutor in English, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a striking—and strikingly necessary—contribution to the rich and enormously consequential tradition of considering Conrad in light of the literature, culture, history, and politics of his native Poland. Expanding our sense of Conrad’s echoes and interactions with Polish literary history to degrees hitherto unappreciated, Jean M. Szczypien advances a suggestive case for an entire symbolic register through which Conrad’s fiction is in consistent dialogue with Polish literary precedent, and in the process challenges our understandings of a significant number of Conrad’s texts. Readers interested in Conrad’s Polish moorings will find themselves irresistibly engaged by this text—and readers not yet interested in such ‘Polish’ questions will find themselves challenged and compelled to change their minds by the significance of the subject and the gravity, eloquence, and provocative elasticity of its treatment here. Definitely an important contribution to current global and internationalist interests in Conrad generally.” Peter Lancelot Mallios, University of Maryland\u003cbr\u003e“Jean M. Szczypien has delved deeply into Conrad’s Polish background, an area in which almost all of us Anglo-American Conradians are woefully ignorant.” Thomas C. Moser, Emeritus Professor of English, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Echoes from \u003ci\u003eKonrad Wallenrod\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eAlmayer’s Folly \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Personal Record\u003c\/i\u003e – Polish Butterflies in\u003ci\u003e Lord Jim\u003c\/i\u003e and Echoes from \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003e– \u003ci\u003eNostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard\u003c\/i\u003e –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe New Religion in Zygmunt Krasiński’s \u003ci\u003eThe Undivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/i\u003e –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eMemoirs \u003c\/i\u003eof Tadeusz Bobrowski and \u003ci\u003eA Personal Record\u003c\/i\u003e – \u003ci\u003eUnder Western Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e –\u003ci\u003e A Personal Record\u003c\/i\u003e – The Manuscript of \"A Familiar Preface\" An Encoded Proclamation of Triumph – Appendix: Kurtz’s Cathedral: An Image from \u003ci\u003eThe Undivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e – Works Cited – Permissions – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039576326487,"sku":"9781433127526","price":76.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433127526.jpg?v=1750944144","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sailing-towards-poland-with-joseph-conrad-9781433127526","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}