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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”: Joseph Conrad’s Lasting Legacy

Publication date: 2018

Yearbook of Conrad Studies, 2018, Vol. 13, pp. 7 - 15

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843941YC.18.001.11236

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John Peters
University of North Texas
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”: Joseph Conrad’s Lasting Legacy

Abstract

*This article looks at Joseph Conrad’s lasting legacy and influence on the literature that followed him. His unique background and Polish experience allowed him to look at the world in a unique way as compared to his contemporaries such as John Galsworthy. Conrad’s views on narrative, on colonialism, on the nature of universe, on the writing of political fiction, and his use of elements from popular fiction both directly and indirectly influenced the Modernism movement and many later writers, aspects of whose works reveal their origins in the works of Conrad.

* This is a revision of a Plenary Address given at the Conrad Our Contemporary Conference in Warsaw, 14th November 2017.

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Information: Yearbook of Conrad Studies, 2018, Vol. 13, pp. 7 - 15

Article type: Original article

Authors

University of North Texas

Published at: 2018

Article status: Open

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