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Description of  Intimations of Joseph Conrad: A Century of Sightings and Citings of Conrad s Presences in Print, Crafts, Media and Monuments

3031679172 epub Master mariner and pioneer author of Modernist technique Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) achieved such eminence in his lifetime that his presence, explicit or implicit, could be found in the lives and works of several contemporaries of consequence. Through the century since his death he has lived on as a presence in the works of later authors to the present day. A collection spanning fifteen years of the present authors sightings of Conrads presences are not only literary, but also memorial. Monuments, sculpture, ships, plaques, the performing arts, cabinetry and even a pub find a place. Each sighting is described in its contexta couple of certain or likely sightings by Conrad, such as Molire and Matthew Arnold, and the rest sightings or ambient intimations of Conrads presence fiction and social commentary in novels and film by significant authors who carry on his legacy, from contemporaries such as H.G. Wells, Ford Madox Ford and F. Scott Fitzgerald to moderns George Orwell, Albert Camus, John Le Carre, Ian MacEwan and John Banfield, among others. Read more