Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary Culture

Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech is Professor of English Literature at the University of Silesia, Poland, and Vice-President of the Polish Joseph Conrad Society. She published on Conrad, T.S. Eliot, G.B. Shaw, H.Pinter, J. Verma. Her recent monograph is entitled Adaptations of J.Conrad’s Life and Works in Contemporary Culture.Nathalie Martinière is a full professor at the Department of English, University of Limoges where she teaches literature. She is the author of Figures du Double: du personage au texte and has more recently co-edited Rewriting in the 20th-21st Centuries: Aesthetic Choice or Political Act?. She is the editor of L’Epoque Conradienne.Josiane Paccaud-Huguet was Emeritus Professor of Modernist literature at Université Lumière-Lyon 2. She was also a psychoanalyst. She published on Conrad and K. Mansfield, V. Woolf and M. Lowry. She published a monograph on Conrad (with C. Maisonnat) and a critical edition of Au Cœur des Ténèbres.Véronique Pauly is senior lecturer at the University of Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines-Paris-Saclay where she teaches literature. She has published on Joseph Conrad, edited Nostromo for the 2007 Penguin Black Classics edition and, more recently, co-edtited The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe.

• List of FiguresAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1What Is Conrad the Name Of?1 Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary French CultureJosiane Paccaud-Huguet2 The Presence of Conrad in Eduardo Berti’s Un Padre ExtranjeroNathalie MartinièrePart 2Showing: Graphic and Filmic Metamorphoses3 Contexts, Genres, and Transformations Conradesque Novels by Robert Silverberg and Henri BoscoLaurence Davies4 From Adaptation to Autonomy Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in French and English Graphic NovelsAgnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech5 From Heart of Darkness to Apocalypse Oz The Horror ShiftedEwa Kujawska-Lis6 Conrad, Fudakowski Secret Sharer(s)Joanna Skolik7 The Secret Agent in Antonioni’s WritingsMichel ArouimiPart 3Telling: Literary Affiliations and Appropriations8 Conrad and Transcultural BelongingRobert Hampson9 The Advanced Connection of Beliefs and Style Joseph Conrad in the Eyes of Olga TokarczukKarol Samsel10 The Loneliness of a Migrant The Intercultural Experience in Joseph Conrad and Stanisław LemDaniel Vogel11 Affiliations in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes and J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of PetersburgVéronique PaulyIndex of Non-fictional NamesIndex of Conrad’s WorksIndex of Subjects