Edinburgh University Press
Joseph Conrad and the Arts of his Time
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Addresses the changing geographical and historical background to Conrad’s life as a source for his developing artistic vision
- Demonstrates Conrad’s familiarity with developments in a wide range of art forms from music hall to opera, dance to cinema, literary theatre to grand guignol, realist landscape painting to impressionism and the New English Art Club
- Makes an original contribution to Conrad studies: all the essays are based on original research rather than summarising existing knowledge
- Provides new insights into a range of Conrad’s works from the perspective of practices in the arts of his time
This volume is the product of new research on Conrad’s engagement with the arts during his lifetime. Beginning with nineteenth-century Polish landscape painting and Polish theatre, the essays move through music and the performing arts during Conrad’s time in Marseilles; the opera Conrad encountered in Australia; and Conrad’s later-life knowledge of recent and contemporary classical music. Subsequent essays demonstrate his familiarity with contemporary visual art (particularly through his friendships with various artists in London); his interest in dance; and his active involvement in contemporary theatre and screen-writing. The volume concludes with a discussion of Conrad’s art as a novelist and playwright, his ‘theatrical imagination’, in relation to developments in theatre theory of the time.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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A Note on Texts and Abbreviations
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Introduction: Joseph Conrad and the Arts of His Time
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Chapter 1 The ‘Familiar Landscape’ in Conrad’s Polish Texts
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Chapter 2 Joseph Conrad, Apollo Nałecz- Korzeniowski and Polish Drama in the Nineteenth Century
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Chapter 3 Conrad, Music and the Performing Arts in Marseilles
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Chapter 4 Conrad and Australia: Operatic Instability and ‘The Planter of Malata’
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Chapter 5 Revisiting Jean-Aubry’s ‘Joseph Conrad and Music’ (1924)
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Chapter 6 A Seeing Eye: Conrad and the Visual Arts
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Chapter 7 Conrad and Dance: From Music Hall to Modernism
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Chapter 8 ‘Un genre que Vs étonnera’: Conrad Writing for the Cinema
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Chapter 9 Conrad, the English Literary Theatre and Grand-Guignol
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Chapter 10 ‘A Theatrical Imagination’: Conrad’s Fiction and the Arts of the Modernist Stage
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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