By Katherine Isobel Baxter,Richard J. Hand

Conrad's fiction is characterised by way of an everlasting recourse to the acting arts for metaphor, allegory, image, and material; even if, this point of Conrad's non-dramatic works has only in the near past all started to come back into its personal between literary critics. based on this seminal second, Joseph Conrad and the acting Arts deals an exhilarating, interdisciplinary discussion board for probably the most attention-grabbing and nascent components of Conrad reports. Adopting quite a few theoretical ways, the individuals research significant and overlooked works in the context of the acting arts: cultural functionality in Conrad's Malay fiction; Conrad's use and parody of well known traditions akin to melodrama, Grand-Guignol, and commedia dell'arte; Conrad's engagement with the visible tradition of early cinema; Conrad's curiosity within the motifs of shadowgraphy (shadow plays); Conrad's courting to Shakespeare; and the iconic effect of opera on his paintings. Taken jointly, the essays offer, via sturdy scholarship and richly provocative hypothesis, new perception into Conrad's oeuvre, and invite destiny discussion within the burgeoning box of Conrad and the appearing arts.

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