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Un siècle après sa mort, Joseph Conrad demeure une figure centrale et controversée. Cet ouvrage collectif explore la manière dont les approches critiques contemporaines – écocritique, études postcoloniales, culture visuelle – renouvellent la lecture de son œuvre. À travers des analyses variées (adaptations graphiques, réception critique, philosophie du maritime, questions identitaires), les contributions interrogent la place de Conrad dans le paysage intellectuel actuel et sa résonance face aux enjeux contemporains.

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• Conrad, a Hundred Years After His Death


• Salih, Ngũgĩ and Hisham Matar:  The Use and Abuse of Conrad - Robert HAMPSON 


• “And all about others were scattered  in every pose of contorted collapse”:  Representing the Body in Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Graphic Novel Adaptations - Nathalie MARTINIERE


• Heart of Darkness and Visual Culture:  Can the Subaltern Claim for an Image  and a Voice of Their Own? - Christine VANDAMME


• Philosophy and the Life of the Sea in Conrad’s Fiction - Nic PANAGOPOULOUS


• Robinson Returns: Revisiting the Vestiges  of Adventure in Stevenson’s and Conrad’s Fiction,  from Repetition to Creation. - Julie GAY


• Squelching in the Mud: Yanko’s Exile in the Stratigraphic and   Socially-Produced Kentish Space - Isabelle LOREAL


• The Split Gaze:  Identity and Cultural Divisions in Under Western Eyes - Ludmilla VOITKOVSKA


• Ghost-Haunted Transmission in The Shadow-Line - Catherine DELESALLE-NANCEY


• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Ed. by D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Broadview Press, 2020, 343 p. - Nathalie MARTINIERE