A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

A Concordance to Conrad's Victory
Author: James W. Parins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1000042596

Originally published in 1979, The Concordance to Conrad’s Victory is intended to provide access to certain information on the text of the novel in a manner convenient to Conrad scholars. To this end the authors have included an alphabetical list of word frequencies and a type/token ratio table as well as a list of word frequencies in rank order. In the concordance itself, each specific word in the text is listed in alphabetical order along with an identifier number and a context for the word. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.

Victory

Victory
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1995-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140189780

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life. Marked by a violent and tragic conclusion, Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love.

Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Conrad

Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Conrad
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 6801
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000519139

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is widely considered one the great modern writers in English literature. This 21-volume set contains titles, originally published between 1976 and 1990 as well as a biography from 1957 written by one of his closest friends. The first 18 books are a set of concordances and indexes to Conrad’s printed works, which were part of a project directed by Todd K. Bender at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and are among the first attempts to use the power of computers to enhance our reading environment and assist in lexicography, scholarly editing, and literary analysis. The set also contains a meticulously compiled bibliography of writings on Joseph Conrad, as well as an original and powerful analysis of his major work.

The Ruling Passion

The Ruling Passion
Author: Christopher Lane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

In The Ruling Passion, Christopher Lane examines the relationship between masculinity, homosexual desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the twentieth century. Questioning the popular assumption that Britain's empire functioned with symbolic efficiency on sublimated desire, this book presents a counterhistory of the empire's many layers of conflict and ambivalence. Through attentive readings of sexual and political allegory in the work of Kipling, Forster, James, Beerbohm, Firbank, and others--and deft use of psychoanalytic theory--The Ruling Passion interprets turbulent scenes of masculine identification and pleasure, power and mastery, intimacy and antagonism. By foregrounding the shattering effects of male homosexuality and interracial desire, and by insisting on the centrality of unconscious fantasy and the death drive, The Ruling Passion examines the startling recurrence of colonial failure in narratives of symbolic doubt and ontological crisis. Lane argues compellingly that Britain can progress culturally and politically only when it has relinquished its residual fantasies of global mastery.

English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.)

English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.)
Author: Olga M. Karpova
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1443828211

This book is devoted to the description of typical trends in development, formation and the present state of English Author Lexicography, the roots of which go back to concordances to the Bible and glossaries of the complete works of Chaucer (xvi c.). Part I, “Linguistic Dictionaries to English Writers,” presents lexicographic analysis of old and new concordances, indices, glossaries and lexicons of famous English writers with special reference to Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and Dickens. It presents a modern scene of author glossaries for unfamiliar words, terms and other groups of writers’ vocabulary (e.g. Shakespeare’s insults and his erotic language). The reader is offered a detailed review of author concordances, glossaries and lexicons on the Internet, along with criticism of printed dictionaries. Part II, “Encyclopedic Reference Works to English Writers,” deals with English author encyclopedic reference books, i.e. encyclopedias, guides and companions; dictionaries of characters and place names; quotations and proverbs, and Internet encyclopedic resources. The book also provides a comprehensive list of references on author lexicography and an Index of Dictionaries to the English Writers (xvi–xxi cc.), including 300 titles of linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries, which is a reliable user guide in the world of English author lexicography.

A Concordance to Conrad's Nostromo

A Concordance to Conrad's Nostromo
Author: James W. Parins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000042618

Originally published in 1984, this volume follows others in the series. By looking up a word in the word frequency table, the user can find how often it occurs in the text. The verbal index indicates at what page and line the word occurs so that the user can turn to the field of reference to see the word in each of its contexts. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.

A Concordance to Conrad's The Rover

A Concordance to Conrad's The Rover
Author: David Leon Higdon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000040194

Originally published in 1985, as with the earlier volumes in the series, the reader of The Rover is here provided a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. Using the tables in this concordance, the reader should be better able to address the issue of style and determine on a more informed basis whether Conrad has deliberately eschewed the adjectival and even the figurative in favour of a lean, spare style, or whether he has simply tangled his style in rhetorical excesses and imprecisions.

A Concordance to Conrad's The Nigger of the Narcissus

A Concordance to Conrad's The Nigger of the Narcissus
Author: James W. Parins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 100004260X

Originally published in 1981, this volume tabulates the vocabulary of one of Conrad’s most interesting works. This volume contains a complete verbal index to the text, a table of word frequencies, and a field of reference allowing the user to locate the context of each word cited. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works. This book is a re-issue pertaining to a title originally published in 1897. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

A Concordance to Conrad's A Set of Six

A Concordance to Conrad's A Set of Six
Author: Todd K. Bender
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1000040135

Originally published in 1981, this concordance to A Set of Six will assist readers in understanding the vocabulary of a group of stories of considerable artistic merit and also of importance to our grasp of Conrad’s total works. It is particularly important, however, that this volume of tables be available to the serious scholar of Conrad, because it provides a basis for comparison of his various short works. This volume gives a verbal index, listing all the words used by Conrad in A Set of Six with the page and line number in which the word occurs. The user turns from the verbal index to the field of reference to see the word in its full context. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.

A Concordance to Conrad's Lord Jim

A Concordance to Conrad's Lord Jim
Author: James W. Parins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1000042588

Originally published in 1976, this publication falls into three parts: The Verbal Index, The Word Frequency Table, and The Field of Reference. A scholar interested in the full range of connotation for the word heart in Conrad would look first to the word frequency table to see how often the word in question occurs in Lord Jim. If the word is indeed part of the vocabulary of the novel, he then would turn to its alphabetical listing in the verbal index and the line numbers in which it appears. Then turning to the field of reference, he could locate the lines cited and look at each occurrence of the word in context. The authors feel that the data provided by these tables is of basic importance to both the editor and the literary critic.