Contains essays from the Fourth International Joseph Conrad Conference, entitled "Conrad's Polish-Ukrainian Footprints," organized by the Centre for Conrad Studies of the English Dept. of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, and held at Lublin and Kazimierz Dolny, June 19-23, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Wiesław Krajka -- Conrad and Englishness / Hunt Hawkins -- A sense of belonging : Joseph Conrad and otherness / Peter Vernon -- "You are extraordinary, you others" : breakdowns in communication in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim / Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech -- "In the light of the final incident" : rereading Typhoon / Keith Carabine -- Politics and prophylactics : The secret agent and Under western eye / Thomas Jackson Rice -- Irony and modern entropy in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent / Olga Binczyk -- The steamer and the raft : Charlie Marlow and Huck Finn / Manfred Malzahn -- Heart of Blackwood's : the millennial number of Maga / Sebastian D.G. Knowles -- Sublimely gifted but destined to fall : a comparative study of Conrad's Kurtz and Milton's Satan as the archetype of evil genius / Jarosław Giza -- Above the banks of darkness : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and Søren Kierkegaard's existentialism / Ewa Bobrowska -- "Tossing about in the darkness" : ambivalence in The nigger of the Narcissus / Wojciech Kozak -- Son et Lumière : audio-visual Enlightenment at the heart of darkness / Susan Bhatt -- The chronotope of darkness in Conrad's work / Josiane Paccaud-Huguet.