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Informationen zum Autor Brendan Kavanagh isPostdoctoral Project Researcher at the Joseph Conrad Research Centre of Jagiellonian University Poland Grazyna M.T. Branny has published on Conrad, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich, in A Conflict of Values: Alienation and Commitment in the Novels of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner, Fictions and Metafictions of Evil (ed.), and Intertextualizing Collective American Memory (forthcoming). Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Silesia, Poland, and Vice-President of the Polish Joseph Conrad Society. Klappentext A diverse and multinational volume, this book showcases the passages of Joseph Conrad's narratives across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on the transtextual and transcultural elements of his fiction. Featuring contributions from distinguished and emergent Conrad scholars, it unpacks the transformative meanings which Conrad's narratives have achieved in crossing national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Featuring studies on the reception of Conrad in modern China, an exploration of Conrad's relationship with India, a comparative study of the hybrid art of Conrad and Salman Rushdie, and the responses of Conrad's narratives to alternative media forms, this volume brings out transtextual relations among Conrad's works and various media forms, world narratives, philosophies, and emergent modes of critical inquiry. Gathering essays by contributors from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this volume constitutes an inclusive, transnational networking of emergent border-crossing scholarship. Vorwort A diverse and multinational collection of essays, this book showcases the passages of Joseph Conrad’s narratives across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on the transtextual and transcultural elements of his fiction. Zusammenfassung A diverse and multinational volume, this book showcases the passages of Joseph Conrad’s narratives across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on the transtextual and transcultural elements of his fiction. Featuring contributions from distinguished and emergent Conrad scholars, it unpacks the transformative meanings which Conrad's narratives have achieved in crossing national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Featuring studies on the reception of Conrad in modern China, an exploration of Conrad's relationship with India, a comparative study of the hybrid art of Conrad and Salman Rushdie, and the responses of Conrad’s narratives to alternative media forms, this volume brings out transtextual relations among Conrad’s works and various media forms, world narratives, philosophies, and emergent modes of critical inquiry. Gathering essays by contributors from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this volume constitutes an inclusive, transnational networking of emergent border-crossing scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part 1 Transtextual and Transcultural Bridges 1 Conrad's Triple Perspective: History, Memory, Fiction Jakob Lothe 2 Conrad as a Reader of Adam Mickiewicz's Gra zyna Karol Samsel 3 An Epistemological and Denegative Reinterpretation in the Faulknerian Context of Conrad's Malay Tale: "The Planter of Malata" Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny 4 The Power "not to": Agambenian Thought in Conrad's Victory and Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust Pei-Wen Clio Kao 5 " Ich bin nicht einer von euch ": Language as a Tool to Construct the Identities of Conrad's German-Speaking Characters Ewa Kujawska-Lis Part 2 Transmedial and Transnational Negotiations 6 Time, Pla...
