Zdzisław Najder’s Contribution to Conrad Studies in English
Zdzisław Najder’s Contribution to Conrad Studies in English

Author(s): John G. Peters
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Summary/Abstract: This essay surveys and summarizes Zdzisław Najder’s contributions to Conrad scholarship in English in the areas of resources, commentary, and biography. The resources he contributed to Conrad scholarship rest in the numerous Polish documents he first made available to the English-speaking scholarly world. The commentary he contributed brought to the forefront the role of Polish culture in the forming of Conrad’s works, especially the chivalric tradition of honor that was so important in Polish culture of the nineteenth century. Finally, the biographical contributions he made consisted in drawing from numerous sources that were and remain unavailable to other biographers and in producing biographical work that relies heavily on documentation and eschews speculation.

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