Description

This volume contains papers given during the international conference “Transnational Conrad: between Texts and Theory” held in Limoges (France) on 21-22 September, 2017. It complements the articles published in volume 41. Two more articles, also related with transnational questions, are also included in this issue.

Sommaire

Heart of Darkness in a multi-cultural world

• Conrad’s Heart of Darkness under Oriental Eyes (Malika REBAI MAAMRI)


• A Third Eye: Reading Conrad in Light of/in Spite of Achebe (Christopher CAIRNEY)


• Striving after Something with or without Substance: A Close Reading of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (Xin Xin ZHAO)

Multidisciplinary approaches

• Reversing the “False Effect of Silence” and Repression in Lord Jim (Christie GRAMM)


• Lord Jim: Always “the Unexpected" (Yoko OKUDA"


• “Seeking a new form”: Conrad’s Author’s Notes and the Art of the Novel (Marina LOPS)

Varia

• “An Anarchist” as Semiotic Tragedy (Patrick TOURCHON)


• Stereotypes of Russia in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes (Ludmilla VOITKOWSKA)