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Under Conrad's Eyes

The Novel as Criticism

By: Michael John DiSanto

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Under Conrad's Eyes

The Novel as Criticism

By: Michael John DiSanto

An innovative account of Joseph Conrad's engagement with nineteenth-century thought.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773535101

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9780773535107

Under Conrad's Eyes

The Novel as Criticism

By: Michael John DiSanto

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Under Conrad's Eyes

The Novel as Criticism

By: Michael John DiSanto

Joseph Conrad's novels are recognized as great works of fiction, but they should also be counted as great works of criticism. A voracious reader throughout his life, Conrad wrote novels that question and transform the ideas he encountered in non-fiction, novels, and scientific and philosophic works. Under Conrad's Eyes looks at Conrad's revaluations of some of his important nineteenth-century predecessors - Carlyle, Darwin, Dickens, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. Detailed readings of works from Heart of Darkness to Victory explore Conrad's language and style, focusing on questions regarding the will to know and the avoidance of knowledge, the potential harmfulness of sympathy, and the competing instincts for self-preservation and self-destruction. Comparative analyses show how Conrad transforms aspects of Bleak House into The Secret Agent and Middlemarch into Nostromo. Especially compelling are explorations of Conrad's ambivalence towards Carlyle's faith in work and hero-worship as rejuvenators of English culture and his views on Nietzsche's assault on Christianity. This important new study of a novelist of profound contemporary relevance demonstrates how Conrad exemplifies the artist as critic while challenging both the categories we impose on texts and the boundaries we erect between literary periods.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773577068

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9780773577060

Imprinting Britain

Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America

By: Michael Eamon

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Imprinting Britain

Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America

By: Michael Eamon

Printing presses were instrumental in creating and upholding a sense of community during the eighteenth century. While the importance of print in the development of colonial America and the nascent United States is well-established, Imprinting Britain extends the historical discussion northward to explore the dynamic and interrelated world of newspapers, coffee houses, and theatre in the British imperial capitals of Halifax and Quebec City. Michael Eamon describes how an English-language colonial community coalesced around the printed word, establishing public spaces for colonists to propose, debate, and define their visions of an ideal society. Whereas American newspapers functioned as incubators of republican and revolutionary thought, their British North American counterparts featured a moderate discourse that rejected republicanism, favoured civic engagement, advocated liberty with propriety, extolled democracy under monarchy, promoted reason over superstition, and encouraged social criticism without revolution. The press also safeguarded against the uncertainties of colonial life by providing a steady stream of transatlantic news, literature, and fashion that helped construct a sense of Britishness in an environment rife with mixed loyalties. Imprinting Britain is the story of communities that turned to the press for a canon of British norms, literary touchstones, and Enlightenment-inspired ideas, which offered a blueprint for colonial growth and a sense of stability in an ever-changing, transatlantic milieu.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773583033

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9780773583030

Strategic Management

Competitiveness and Globalization

By: Michael A. Hitt,R. Duane Ireland,Robert E. Hoskisson

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Strategic Management

Competitiveness and Globalization

By: Michael A. Hitt,R. Duane Ireland,Robert E. Hoskisson

This text explains how firms achieve strategic competitiveness, emphasizing integration of resources and capabilities to obtain a sustained competitive advantage. The text integrates the resource-based view of the firm with the more traditional model.

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1002

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Thomson South-Western

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0324114796

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9780324114799

Totally Dead

A Streeter Mystery

By: Michael Stone

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A Streeter Mystery

By: Michael Stone

Ex-linebacker Streeter, Denver's favorite tough guy, must battle a whole new set of low-lifes when he represents Alphonse Lucci, restaurateur and small-time mafioso.

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252

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Viking Adult

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0670882089

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9780670882083

Sicily

By: Dana Facaros,Michael Pauls

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Sicily

By: Dana Facaros,Michael Pauls

With their usual authority and wit, Facaros and Pauls reveal the complexities of Sicilian culture and history as well as describing its many sights. They give the latest details on hotels, restaurants, festivals, travel, sports, and entertainment. Detailed maps will help you find your way around.

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388

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Globe Pequot Press

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1564401766

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9781564401762

Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches

By: Dana Facaros,Michael Pauls

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Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches

By: Dana Facaros,Michael Pauls

This newly revised edition of Cadogan's bestseller uncovers the three regions' lavish natural beauty and some of the most enchanting landscapes in Europe. Art, history, rolling hills, and delicious food are there for the taking in this beautiful part of Italy.

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Wu Wei Ltd

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1860111866

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9781860111860

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