Joseph Conrad – A Time-Lord

Joanna Skolik

doi:10.35765/pk.2024.4502.20

Joanna Skolik University of Opole https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9218-7535

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2024.4502.20

Abstract

Conrad’s fiction manages the temporal dimension in highly innovative ways. Conrad was ahead of his time in employing such devices as delayed decoding, flashbacks, time-shifts, as well as by enveloping his characters in temporal loops or a timeless space. In his works, time defies the laws of physics, allowing him to create an idiosyncratic space-time continuum.

Biografia autore

Joanna Skolik, University of Opole

Associate Professor at the University of Opole, Poland and Secretary of The Joseph Conrad Society, Poland. She has published a book on Conrad’s ethics, and numerous articles on Conrad, poetry and rock lyrics. Her most recent publication is a co-edited volume with J. Dudek and A. Juszczyk, Essays on Joseph Conrad in Memory of Professor Zdzisław Najder (19/0–2021).

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