The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures

This volume collects the papers given at the Second International Conference of Conrad scholars, hosted by the University of Pisa in September 2004, to commemorate the Italian publisher and eminent Conrad scholar and translator, Ugo Mursia (1916-1982).
Bringing together the results of new research by the most eminent scholars and critics in the field, The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures pay homage to Dr Mursia's thorough research of original documents, and reveal the wide international admiration for his fine Italian edition of Conrad's complete works.
In their variety of methodological approaches, these twenty-three new essays, presented here in the same order as in the Conference sessions, deal with "Conrad and the Classical World", the "Centenary of Nostromo", and "Conrad's Reception in Italy". The wide range of these in-depth explorations and findings provide fresh insights and original appraisals of Conrad's artistic achievement.