Joseph Conrad Questions and Answers

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is one of the author’s most famous works of prose fiction. It was first published in 1899 and it is considered a fictional autobiography since he based it on his...

In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Kurtz is at the Inner Station; the only way they know that he is still alive (because he has stopped corresponding) is because he continues to be enormously...

I think you are asking whether, in the field of international literature, there is a difference between English and British. Of course, Britain is an “empire” consisting of several countries, one...

Since the topic is wide open, I think you need to be ready for a variety of approaches to it. One particular striking feature that can be shown side to side is how Conrad deals with the notion of...

Thematically, many texts we now identify as modernist are concerned with a with the "subjectivity of reality". Woolf, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot all dealt with ideas of a break...

You could start out with Conrad's biographies from his own mouth. There is "A Personal Record" by Conrad, and many of his letters have been published in volumes. Zdzislaw Najder is a great Conrad...

Modernism loosely coincided with a widespread movement toward commercialism, a new kind of nationalism and the end of imperialism world-wide (due to its replacement by a global capitalist system)....

This refers to the increasing trend in this time to focus more and more on the inner lives of characters rather than on external events. This was part of a greater artistic and cultural movement...