New Insights Into Conrad and Poland

Auteur
Is profesor emeritus at Maria Curie-Skodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He is the author of Isolation and Ethos: A Study of Joseph Conrad (1992) and editor of Various Dimensions of the Other in Joseph Conrad's Fiction (2020), Some Intertextual Chords of Joseph Conrad's Literary Art (2019), Joseph Conrad's Authorial Self. Polish and Other (2018), among others, and the editor of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives.

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This book studies Conrad's literary works in relation to Polish literature, Polish reception of his oeuvre, and Conrad's Polishness.

Résumé
Despite the large number of publications on Joseph Conrad's Polishnessincluding previous volumes of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectivesmany questions remain. New Insights Into Conrad and Poland, edited by Wiesaw Krajka, brings together a variety of thematic and methodological approaches in search of new insights. After the opening chapter, which comments on Polishness as studied in previous volumes of this series, contributions examine the life of Conrad and members of his close family; Conrad's literary works in relation to Polish literature; Polish reception of his oeuvre, including adaptations and educational influence, as translations, as works of art, and in schools and popular culture; the Polish Jewish experience; and exilic feelings. The coda of the volume is a study that presents a view of Russia as antithetical to Polishness. Essays range across traditional biographical criticism, literary analysis and interpretation, comparison of Conrad's literary works and their intertextual study with those by other authors and with other works of art, translation and adaptation studies, investigations of reception of literature and popular culture, archetypal criticism, and philosophical criticism. The book is volume 33 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wiesaw Krajka.

CONTRIBUTORS: Wiesaw Krajka, Lilia Omelan, Karol Samsel, Daniel Vogel, Ewa Kujawska-Lis, Olga Binczyk, Mirosawa Buchholtz, Agnieszka Adamowicz-Popiech, James Mellor, John G. Peters.

Contenu
Wiesaw Krajka: Introduction

Wiesaw Krajka: The Methodology of Studying Joseph Conrad Globally in the 21st Century. Reflections on the Publishing Strategy of the Series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives

Lilia Omelan: Stefan Bobrowski: A Faithful Fighter for Poland's Freedom

Lilia Omelan: Conrad's Lwów

Karol Samsel: The Echoes of Polish Romanticism in Nostromo

Daniel Vogel: Conradian heart of darkness in Selected Science Fiction Works by Stanisaw Lem: Solaris, Return from the Stars, and Fiasco

Ewa Kujawska-Lis: Janko Góral: The Polish Face of Amy Foster between Translation, Appropriation, and Refraction

Wiesaw Krajka: Social Archetypes of Identity in Joseph Conrad's "Tomorrow, One Day More, and Jutro by Baird, Hussakowski, and Sito

Olga Binczyk: First Encounters: Joseph Conrad on Reading Lists among Pre-
College Audiences

Mirosawa Buchholtz: Digital Footprints: The Reception of Jdro ciemnoci (Heart of Darkness) on YouTube
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Popiech: Graphic Adaptations of Heart of Darkness

James Mellor: Schiffs and Spectators: John Auerbach and Joseph Conrad's Orientations Home

John G. Peters: Russia and Nothingness in Joseph Conrad's Writings

Index of Non-Fictional Names

Index of Conrad's Works and Letters