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1032473444 pdf The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrads works, reception, and legacy. This volume brings together an international roster of scholars who consider his works in relation to biography, narrative, politics, womens studies, comparative literature, and other forms of art. They offer approaches as diverse as re-examining Conrads sea voyages using newly available digital materials, analyzing his archipelagic narrative techniques, applying Chinese philosophy to Lord Jim, interrogating gendered epistemology in the neglected story The Tale, considering Conrad alongside W.E.B. Du Bois, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, or Orhan Pamuk, or alongside sound, gesture, opera, graphic novels, or contemporary events. Read more