Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts:
A collection of essays
Edited by Katherine I. Baxter (University of Glasgow) and Richard J. Hand (University of Glamorgan)
We are planning a collection of critical essays studying the influence of the performing arts on Conrad’s non-dramatic works. The book will be the first academic and critical study wholly devoted to this aspect of Conrad’s work and is intended for the senior level undergraduate and graduate student, the scholar of the period and the Conrad specialist. The interdisciplinary nature of the book will open up readership to a wider field and may attract the general reader.
We invite abstracts of 300 words and a brief authorial biography from established and new Conradians that reflect a variety of approaches ranging from literary and performance theory, biographical theory, as well as textually driven readings.
Aims and Scope
Conrad’s own letters to, and friendships with, dramatists such as John Galsworthy attest to his interest in the theatre, even where he is critical of it; his own engagement with dramatic writing covers a period of nearly 20 years; the reports of friends and relatives affirm his interest in and enjoyment of musical performances; and, most importantly, examination of his fiction, and his letters concerning the fiction, evidences an enduring recourse to the performing arts for metaphor, allegory, symbol and subject matter.
This collection of essays will add to the large corpus of Conrad criticism a comprehensive analysis of an aspect of Conrad’s fiction that has so far received little appraisal. It will develop the growing interdisciplinary study of Conrad’s work and may provide stimulus to study other writers of fiction in a similar way.
Possible Topics
1. Biographical Aspects of Conrad and the Performing Arts
2. Representations of the Performing Arts in Conrad’s fiction
3. Music (Orchestra and Opera)
4. Theatre (European and World)
5. Cinema
Deadline for abstracts: 20th December 2002.
Abstracts and queries can be addressed to either Richard Hand: rhand@glam.ac.uk or Katherine Baxter: 9500010b@student.gla.ac.uk
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