Joseph Conrad Today

Informationen zum Autor Kieron O'Hara is a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Plato and the Internet (2002)! Trust: From Socrates to Spin (2004)! After Blair: Conservatism Beyond Thatcher (2005)! and Access Denied: Distributing Cyberspace Fairly! as well as scholarly and journalistic articles. All his full-length books are written for the general reader. Klappentext This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad's work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad's scepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools for understanding the political world in which we live.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kieran O'Hara, Kieron O'Hara, Kieron O''hara
• Verlag: Imprint Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 18.10.2007
• EAN: 9781845400668
• ISBN: 978-1-84540-066-8
• Seiten: 96
• Serien: SOCIETAS; Societas
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein