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The Nursery of the Craft

Author(s): Marek Pacukiewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Joseph Conrad; The Nursery of the Craft; The Mirror of the Sea; A Personal Record Zdzisław Najder; literary biography; modern humanities science of culture; semiotic model of culture;;
Summary/Abstract: There are two ways of constructing literary biography in modern humanities: throughLife of a Writer or through Work of an Author. Zdzisław Najder has proposed anotherperspective which is based on “lexicography” of most important elements of a particularcultural tradition. In this manner biography of Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowskibecomes a part of science of culture, its subject being a tradition considered as semioticmodel of culture.

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