03129nam 22005892 450 991080950370332120151005020621.01-107-11994-40-511-01374-41-280-15906-50-511-11854-60-511-15590-50-511-32533-90-511-48534-40-511-04999-4(CKB)111056485652546(EBL)201443(OCoLC)475915002(SSID)ssj0000149226(PQKBManifestationID)11177069(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149226(PQKBWorkID)10236931(PQKB)10796323(UkCbUP)CR9780511485343(MiAaPQ)EBC201443(Au-PeEL)EBL201443(CaPaEBR)ebr10065246(CaONFJC)MIL15906(EXLCZ)9911105648565254620090226d2000|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEssays on Conrad /Ian Watt[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000.1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-78387-9 0-521-78007-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword: Frank Kermode -- Joseph Conrad: alienation and commitment -- Almayer's Folly: introduction -- Conrad criticism and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' -- Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the critics -- Comedy and humour in Typhoon -- Political and social background of The Secret Agent -- The Secret Sharer: introduction -- Conrad, James and Chance -- Story and idea in The Shadow-Line -- The decline of the decline: notes on Conrad's reputation -- Around Conrad's grave -- 'The Bridge over the River Kwai' as myth.Ian Watt (1917-99) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. The Rise of the Novel (1957) is still the landmark account of the way in which realist fiction developed in the eighteenth century and Watt's work on Conrad has been enormously influential. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979) was to have been followed by a volume addressing Conrad's later work, but the material for this long-awaited second volume remains in essay form. It is these essays, as Frank Kermode points out in his foreword, which form the nucleus of Essays on Conrad. Watt's own worldview, as well as his insight into Conrad's work, was shaped by his experiences as a prisoner of war on the River Kwai. His personal, and painfully moving, account of these experiences forms part of his famous essay 'The Bridge over the River Kwai as Myth' which completes this essential collection.823/.912Watt Ian1917-1999,465233UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910809503703321Essays on Conrad4032527UNINA