Essays on Joseph Conrad in Memory of Professor Zdzisław Najder (1930–2021)

Book review: Dudek, J., Juszczyk, A., & Skolik, J. (eds.). (2022). Es-says on Joseph Conrad in Memory of Professor Zdzisław Najder (1930–2021). Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 380.

Abstrakt

In Poland, the names of Joseph Conrad and Zdzisław Najder are profoundly intertwined across various domains, including literary and political spheres. This connection is natural, given that Najder was a preeminent Conradian scholar in post-war academia. The volume Essays on Joseph Conrad in Memory of Professor Najder (1930–2021) serves as a testament to Najder’s esteemed global reputation as a leading authority on Conrad. The collection, featuring contributions from distinguished scholars such as John G. Peters, Cedric Watts, Laurence Davies, and Andrzej Busza, highlights the significant impact and enduring legacy of Najder’s work in Conradian studies. Already at first glance, the collection attracts general attention by its careful layout whose focus is the dual linguistic vestige, both English and Polish, which justly reflects the divided national loyalties of Joseph Conrad, a Polish-born English writer: while the first section includes nearly two dozen of essays in English composed by scholars from Poland and abroad, the second part consists of the texts written in the Polish language. Moreover, both sections seem carefully designed counterparts, with their argumentation opened with the biographical details and personal recollections of Professor Najder as a Conradian scholar, through the notes upon Conrad’s prose as explored by prof. Najder, and closing with the articles considering Conrad in the context of intertextuality.

Biogram autora

Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska, Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie

An Associate Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at the Institue of Modern Languages, Ignatianum University in Cracow. She holds a degree in Classical Philology from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and in English and Italian Philology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Her research interests include British modernist literature, idyllic literature, nostalgia studies, and the pastoral mode. Wojciechowska has authored numerous articles and two monographs: Re(Visions) of the Pastoral in Selected British and American Post-Romantic Fiction (2017) and Nost/algia as a Mode of Reflection in the Autobiographical Narratives of Joseph Conrad and Henry James (2023). She also edited the volume Colossus: How Shakespeare Still Bestrides the Cultural and Literary World (2018). She is an active member of several scholarly associations, including the British Comparative Literature Association, the Polish Association for the Study of English, the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), the Joseph Conrad Society of America, and the Polish Conrad Society.

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2024-09-30
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Wojciechowska, S.J. 2024. Essays on Joseph Conrad in Memory of Professor Zdzisław Najder (1930–2021): Book review: Dudek, J., Juszczyk, A., & Skolik, J. (eds.). (2022). Es-says on Joseph Conrad in Memory of Professor Zdzisław Najder (1930–2021). Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 380. Perspektywy Kultury. 46, 3 (wrz. 2024), 491-493. DOI:https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2024.4603.32.