Project MUSE®: Conradiana - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Conradiana.daily12026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 39 (2007) through current issueLatest Articles: ConradianaTWOProject MUSE®Conradiana1935-02520010-6356Latest articles in Conradiana. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Conrad’s European Context by Andrzej Busza (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981802
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Credite, Pisones, isti tabulae fore librum Persmilem, cuius, velut aegri somnia, vanae Fingentur species, ut nec pes nec caput unireddatur formae.Dulce et decorum est, that Conrad’s European Context should appear commemoratively in the centenary year of Conrad’s death on August 3, 1924, now when a terrible beauty is born. The land of Conrad’s childhood is revisiting past horrors under a neo-Czarist autocrat’s assault, and his spiritual motherland Poland, indeed all Europe, is in mortal danger. Not every day of this centenary is a nonagenarian, sprinting (and now printing) the last decadal lap to his own centennial, invited to review a masterly tour de force by a poet, translator, Conradian research scholar ne plus
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362/image/coversmallConrad’s European Context by Andrzej Busza (review)2026-02-05text/htmlen-USConrad’s European Context by Andrzej Busza (review)2026-02-052026TWOProject MUSE®422622026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-05Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity by Xiaoling Yao (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981801
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Autobiographical Remembering invites us to consider Conrad’s oeuvre through the lens of life writing—a critical domain where narratology, ethics, and cognitive studies intersect, and where we find an alternative to traditional literary biography. The book is a new contribution to Routledge’s cross-disciplinary series entitled “Auto/Biography Studies” which promises to offer “autobiographical narrative analysis related to understanding varied constructions of the self” (Routledge). Yao’s work fulfills this promise by making the sustained case that Conrad has much to teach us about how memory—even given its porous instability and malleability—is essential to a coherent, if ever-evolving, sense of self. Indeed, in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362/image/coversmallConrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity by Xiaoling Yao (review)2026-02-05text/htmlen-USConrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity by Xiaoling Yao (review)2026-02-052026TWOProject MUSE®177332026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-05Autocracy, Alienation, and Alterity: The Fragility of Ethics in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981796
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In “Autocracy and War” (1905), written six years before the publication of his  political novel Under Western Eyes (1911), Joseph Conrad characterizes Russia as an impotent entity without a past or a clearly-defined future, an “illomened creation,” “a fantasy of a madman’s brain,” and a “figure out of a nightmare seated upon a monument of fear and oppression” (“Autocracy” 39).1 Russian autocracy has “something inhuman” in it, which from the state’s very inception has shown itself in Russia’s “atmosphere of despotism,” a curse that has “moulded its institutions, and [. . .] drugged the national temperament into the apathy of a hopeless fatalism” (44). Autocracy, furthermore, infects Russians with its “half-mystical
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362/image/coversmallAutocracy, Alienation, and Alterity: The Fragility of Ethics in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes2026-02-05text/htmlen-USAutocracy, Alienation, and Alterity: The Fragility of Ethics in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes2026-02-052026TWOProject MUSE®589392026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-05In Memoriam of Josiane Paccaud
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981795
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Josiane Paccaud-Huguet, who died in September 2023, was Emerita Professor of Literature at Université Lumière-Lyon 2 (France), where she had spent most of her career, teaching literature to generations of students and organizing research seminars. She also did her share of administrative work as the head of the Department of Anglophone Studies, and then as the Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages. When she retired from the university, Josiane started a new career as a psychoanalyst and took up playing the mandolin.Josiane has, over the past thirty years, occupied an essential place and contributed to the renewal of Conradian studies in France. As chair of the French Conrad Society for many years, she was always
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362/image/coversmallIn Memoriam of Josiane Paccaud2026-02-05text/htmlen-USIn Memoriam of Josiane Paccaud2026-02-052026TWOProject MUSE®48782026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-05The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity by Alexia Hannis (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981800
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Alexia Hannis’s recent book offers a reading of Joseph Conrad’s narrative voices considered from an Aristotelian perspective. Whilst several of that philosopher’s works are cited, the volume is most concerned to erect a scaffolding of literary and ethical practice drawn primarily from the Poetics and, increasingly as the book develops, the Nicomachean Ethics. Expectedly, perhaps, Hannis begins with the forms of tragedy, an approach that is from the first inflected and then cumulatively overtaken by the philosopher’s notions of praxis, or action, as ethically hued activity. Her analysis of Conrad’s storytelling strategies therefore launches itself upon those well-known topoi of Aristotelian drama, tragedy as a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362/image/coversmallThe Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity by Alexia Hannis (review)2026-02-05text/htmlen-USThe Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity by Alexia Hannis (review)2026-02-052026TWOProject MUSE®484792026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-05From Voice to Vocation in The Rescue
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981797
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At least since Albert Guerard’s 1976 article, critics have discussed the role of voice in Conrad’s work. As his letters to his friends show, Conrad the reader responded to this feature of writing.1 The words “voice” and “tone” often appear in close proximity in Conrad’s fiction, usually in that order, partly as synonyms for the sake of variety. For he records almost compulsively the tone of voice—timbre, volume, mood—in which his characters speak, from the “shrill voice” in the first lines of Almayer’s Folly forward. The prominence of voice in his fiction persists in his later works, such as The Rescue—though the novel’s composition spans his career, so it is both early and late. In the novels generally voice has
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362/image/coversmallFrom Voice to Vocation in The Rescue2026-02-05text/htmlen-USFrom Voice to Vocation in The Rescue2026-02-052026TWOProject MUSE®527662026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-05Here at Last Is the Complete Edition: The Works of Joseph Conrad
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981799
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This special edition is finally achieved to place Conrad’s works in a fine quality binding within the reach of all. Here is contained everything in the de luxe edition—and more. For here are two new volumes that are gifts of most perfect variety to the Conrad lover; and that are discoveries most thrilling and astonishing to the reader who has not, until now, found out Conrad.Tales of Hearsay and Suspense round out the complete edition of Conrad. They make here twentv-six volumes that are as remarkable in their contents created by one of the greatest story-telling geniuses that has ever lived, as they are in the perfection of binding, manufactured by the most up-to-date processes of book making.Except for the two
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362/image/coversmallHere at Last Is the Complete Edition: The Works of Joseph Conrad2026-02-05text/htmlen-USHere at Last Is the Complete Edition: The Works of Joseph Conrad2026-02-052026TWOProject MUSE®32202026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-05The Approach to His Writings: Twenty Famous Critics Tell Readers of The Book Dial How to Start Reading Joseph Conrad
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981798
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“Blessed is the man who finds no disillusion when he is brought face to face with a revered writer!”2When Joseph Conrad stepped off the Tuscania for his visit to America3 he was revealed not only to friends on the dock but also to thousands throughout the United States who, attracted by the occasion of the visit, took the opportunity to sample his writing. Immediately there became a demand for his books— this demand has been growing ever since. He is suddenly discovered. His genial human qualities, his simplicity of thought and sympathy of nature are revealed.In a true sense, Joseph Conrad is a sensational writer. Every sentence produces a sensation, every description sets a mood. His matchless style is only a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/362/image/coversmallThe Approach to His Writings: Twenty Famous Critics Tell Readers of The Book Dial How to Start Reading Joseph Conrad2026-02-05text/htmlen-USThe Approach to His Writings: Twenty Famous Critics Tell Readers of The Book Dial How to Start Reading Joseph Conrad2026-02-052026TWOProject MUSE®556232026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-02-05