Joseph Conrad: East European, Polish, and Worldwide

A collection of essays written by eminent and emerging Conrad scholars from all corners of the world, this book deals with (1) Joseph Conrad's East European and Polish contexts and (2) Joseph Conrad's imperial and American contexts, as well as selected ethical-philosophical and textological-narrative issues. A wide spectrum of themes and aspects of the literary output of Joseph Conrad is addressed as well: from ethical issues to mythical organization of Conradian universe, from analysis of the method of narration to textological studies, from parallels with Whitman and Turgenev to the influence of Dostoevsky and of Polish romantic literature, from post-Freudian to feminist Dutch literature on Indonesia to examination in terms of Indian philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, from mythical anthropological readings of the influence of Polish ethnos and culture to application of elements of Jewish folklore.