Conrad, Joseph LORD JIM. NEW YORK: THE MODERN LIBRARY, 1931 8vo, red cloth, extensively annotated throughout by the eminent literary critic Robert Penn Warren, in pencil and pink ink, with comments on Conrad's method, style, and achievement ("First fully developed impressionistic novel"), as well as close readings of individual passages, containing annotations or underlinings to the great majority of pages, also with about 50 slips of paper loosely inserted to mark pages and often with additional notes by Warren "...Begun as a short story & as 'event' remains a short story. The 'body' is the method - ie. the 'views' & interpretations - the psychological, moral & 'negative' perspective. And this 'chinese box' method reflects the general method of work - evasion, discontinuity etc...." Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was one of the most influential American literary critics of the last century. He was a proponent of the "New Criticism" and member of the Southern Agrarians, as well as being a poet and novelist. His most significant work on Conrad was an essay on Nostromo entitled 'The Great Mirage'.
Conrad, Joseph LORD JIM. NEW YORK: THE MODERN LIBRARY, 1931 8vo, red cloth, extensively annotated throughout by the eminent literary critic Robert Penn Warren, in pencil and pink ink, with comments on Conrad's method, style, and achievement ("First fully developed impressionistic novel"), as well as close readings of individual passages, containing annotations or underlinings to the great majority of pages, also with about 50 slips of paper loosely inserted to mark pages and often with additional notes by Warren "...Begun as a short story & as 'event' remains a short story. The 'body' is the method - ie. the 'views' & interpretations - the psychological, moral & 'negative' perspective. And this 'chinese box' method reflects the general method of work - evasion, discontinuity etc...." Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was one of the most influential American literary critics of the last century. He was a proponent of the "New Criticism" and member of the Southern Agrarians, as well as being a poet and novelist. His most significant work on Conrad was an essay on Nostromo entitled 'The Great Mirage'.
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