G. W. Stephen Brodsky

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G.W. Stephen Brodsky
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Born19 November 1933 (1933-11-19) (age 88)
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
CitizenshipCanadian, British
Education
OccupationArmy, (retired), research scholar, author

Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky (born 19 November 1933) is a research scholar and author in Literature of War and in Joseph Conrad studies.

Life[]

G. W. Stephen Brodsky is a literary research scholar and author. Formerly a career soldier, he joined the Canadian Army Reserves in 1949, aged fifteen, as a boy drummer. He subsequently served 1951–83 in regular army paratroop and conventional units of the Canadian Infantry. He saw tours of duty with NATO in West Germany, as a UN Peacekeeper in Cyprus and Kashmir, and as an instructor of officers.[1]

Brodsky holds an MA (University of Victoria, Canada)in Renaissance Literature and Drama,[2] and DPhil (PhD) (University of York, UK) in Modern Literature with specialist studies in the works of Joseph Conrad.[3] As a military professor on the academic faculty of Royal Roads Military College (RRMC), Victoria, Canada, he taught military ethics and Literature, and subsequently was a civilian Special Lecturer on Literature of War at RRMC.[4]

A former trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society of America (2012–14),[5] Brodsky writes and publishes literary criticism and reviews.[6]

Bibliography[]

  • G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army Since 1660, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood / Praeger, 1988. ISBN 9780313260674.[7][8][9]
  • William J. Patterson, A Regiment Worthy of Its Hire: The Canadian Guards 1953-1970. ed. G. W. Stephen Brodsky, The Canadian Guards Association,1991,ff. ISBN 0-9682355-0-6[10]
  • G. W. Stephen Brodsky, (1) "Conrad's Darkness Visible": Occidental Orientalism and the Exotic in the Malay Tales".(2) Elmar Schenkel, "Fusspuren", G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Trans. and Commentary,in Zwischen Ost und West: Joseph Conrad im Europaischen Gesprache, ed. Elmar Schenkel, Hans-Christian Trepte, Schriftenreihe der Societas Jablonoviana, vol. 2, Leipzig UP, 209-239, 2019.ISBN 978-3-86583-471-3.
  • G. W. Stephen Brodsky, God's Dodger: The Story of a Front Line Chaplain, Sydney, Canada, Elysium, 1993, ISBN 0-9697009-0-3.[11][12]
  • G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self, edited by George Z. Gasyna (Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives Series, vol. 25), Lublin, Maria Curie Skłodowska University Press / New York, Columbia University Press, 2016, 409 pp., ISBN 9788377847862.[13][14][15][16]
  • John R. Bishop with G. W. Stephen Brodsky (co-author, introd., ed.), The King's Bishop: A Canadian Corporal in Korea, 1950–51, Duncan, BC:Mossy Knoll, 2000. ISBN 0-9687825-0-7.[17][18]

References[]

  1. ^ "Major G. W. S. Brodsky, CD". Archival Inventories. Born-digital Items, Accession no. A2021.134-GWSB PPCLI Profile-BRODSKY. . Online. ppcli.com/wp-content/uploads/PPCLI-biographical-sketches-collection.pdf. PPCLI Museum, Calgary, Canada.
  2. ^ Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky, A Wondrous Necessary Man: The Villainous Subordinate in Renaissance Drama. Thesis(MA), University of Victoria, 1976.
  3. ^ Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky, Victory in Defeat: Joseph Conrad and the Idea of Honour, vols. I,II, University of York (UK). Dissertation Abstracts International 50(9),2903A, March, 1990.
  4. ^ Robinson, Maurice and Price, Paul. Royal Roads: A Celebration (Victoria: Natural Light Productions,1995). p. 33. ISBN 0-9699430-0-8
  5. ^ Joseph Conrad Today 39.2.2014, p. 23 (& issues 2012-14).
  6. ^ Articles and reviews in, e.g.,Joseph Conrad Today, XLIV.2,2019. pp. 6-7, ISSN 0162-413X (www.josephconradtoday.org); Conradiana 45.1, 2013, ISSN 0010-6356 in JSTOR; "G. W. Stephen Brodsky's Research Works". www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/G-W-Stephen-Brodsky-2087595216; The Conradian (UK), pp. 104-117, 37.2, 2012, ISSN 0951-2314 (www.worldcat.org?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0951-2314); Modern Fiction Studies, 59.4. 2013 (Johns Hopkins UP), pp. 886-89, ISSN 1080-658X; Schenkel, Elmar, ed. Zwischen Ost und West: Joseph Conrad in Europëaische Gesprach, ed. Elmar Schenkel,Hans-Christian Trepte (Leipzig: Societas Jablonoviana series v. 2, ed. Ewa Tomicka-Krumrey, Dietrich Scolze-Solta/Leipzig UP, 2010), pp. 119-130, ISBN 978-3-86583-471-3; The Conrad Yearbook VII, 2012, pp. 171-74(Cracow: The Jagiellonian Institute/ Joseph Conrad Society [Poland]), ISSN 1899-3028; Joseph Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, ed. Wieslaw Krajka XIX (Lublin: Maria Curie Sklodowska UP/NY: Columbia UP, 2010), 29-92, ISBN 978-0-88033-681-9.
  7. ^ Brodsky, Stephen (1988). Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army since 1660. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger. ISBN 9780313260674.
  8. ^ Robin Higham, review of Gentlemen of the Blade, in Albion, vol. 21, no. 4, 1989, pp. 634-35.
  9. ^ Harold R. Winton, review of Gentlemen of the Blade, in American Historical Review, April 1991, pp. 503-505.
  10. ^ William J. Patterson, A Regiment Worthy of Its Hire: The Canadian Guards 1953-1970,ed. G. W. Stephen Brodsky, Ottawa: The Canadian Guards Association,148, ff. 1991. ISBN 0-9682355-0-6
  11. ^ Brodsky, G. W. Stephen (1993). God's Dodger: The Story of a Front Line Chaplain. Sydney,Canada: Elysium. ISBN 0-9697009-0-3.
  12. ^ Jeffery Williams, review of God's Dodger, in The Journal of Military History, Vol. 58, Issue 1-2, Jan 1994, p. 163.
  13. ^ Brodsky, Stephen. Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul: Realms of Memory and Self. Ed. George Gasyna. Lublin: Maria Curie Skłodowska Press/New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. ISBN 9788377847862.
  14. ^ Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech, review of Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, in Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 43, no. 2. 2019, pp. 5-7.
  15. ^ Anna Gąsienica Byrcyn, review of Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, in The Polish Review, vol. 63, no. 4. 2018, pp. 103-105.
  16. ^ Paul and Audrey Grescoe, The Book of War Letters, McLelland and Stewart, 2003, 398-400,ISBN I-55199-105-5.
  17. ^ John R. Bishop with G. W. Stephen Brodsky (co-author, introd., ed.), The King's Bishop (Review), Times-Colonist, 4 Aug 2002, p. C8.
  18. ^ John R. Bishop with G. W. Stephen Brodsky (co-author, introd., ed.), The King's Bishop (Review), Korea Veterans Association National Website 2 May 2001, p. 1 (www.kvacanada.12s.com).
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