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A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad


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English | 2016 | pages: 166 | ISBN: 1498505007, 0739178245 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with salt water. He left the Polish language for French, and then for English. He attempted suicide at the age of twenty. He invested in various schemes and lost his inheritance. He married an English typist nearly sixteen years younger than himself with whom he had nothing in common. He worked as a writer though he made no money through all the years of his most important work and though he experienced terrible psychological breakdowns after completing each novel. He was warm with his friends, ingratiating with influential strangers, but also intensely irritable and easily offended.

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The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post-911 Plays


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English | ISBN: 1527518949 | 2023 | 194 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What is a suitable genre to describe the post-9/11 era mired in wars, violence, and unspeakable horror? What kind of literary expressions and techniques are appropriate to give voice to the prevalence of global anguish in the post-9/11 scenario? Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option for the expression of the incongruity of the unspeakable horror unleashed after 9/11? Is the term ‘absurd’ applicable to this era? If yes, in what terms is this applicable? This book tries to find answers to these questions and many more. It reflects on the epistemological shifts in the avant-garde tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd, its ongoing critical currency in contemporary history, and its changing contours in the post-9/11 plays of Rajiv Joseph, an emerging American dramatist. It establishes the continued relevance of the Theatre of the Absurd at the current juncture of human history.

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Joseph T. Shaw The Man Behind Black Mask


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English | October 16, 2019 | ISBN: 1618274198 | True EPUB | 319 pages | 2.8 MB
Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw enjoyed several distinguished careers-military man and champion fencer, among them-before he assumed the editorial chair of the most significant fiction magazine since The Strand gave the world the immortal Sherlock Holmes.

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Joseph Addison An Intellectual Biography


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English | December 4, 2023 | ISBN: 0813950392, 0813950406 | True EPUB | 378 pages | 1.6 MB
The name Joseph Addison was once synonymous with the finest of English prose. Eminent writers from Voltaire to Lord Macaulay to John Steinbeck considered him a consummate master to be studied and emulated. According to Benjamin Franklin, Addison’s writings "contributed more to the improvement of the minds of the British nation, and polishing their manner, than those of any other English pen whatever."

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