G. W. Stephen Brodsky

G. W. Stephen Brodsky
Born	Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky 19 November 1933 (1933-11-19) (age 91) Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship	Canadian, British
Education	University of Victoria (M.A) University of York (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)	Army, (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, retiring in the rank of major. 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 a BA (Queen's University, Canada), ^[2] MA (University of Victoria, Canada) in Renaissance Literature and Drama, ^[3] and DPhil (PhD) (University of York, UK) in Modern Literature with specialist studies in the works of Joseph Conrad. ^[4] 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. ^[5]

A former trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society of America (2012–14), ^[6] Brodsky writes and publishes literary criticism and reviews. ^[7]

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. ^{[8] [9] [10]}
• 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 ^[11]
• 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. ^{[12] [13]}
• 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. ^{[14] [15] [16] [17]}
• 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. ^{[18] [19]}
• G. W. Stephen Brodsky, ″Intimations of Joseph Conrad: A Century of Sightings and Citings of Conrad's Presences in Print, Crafts, Media and Monuments″. Ed. Mark Larabee. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 232 pp. HC: ISBN   3031679172; E-Book: ISBN   978-3031679179 ^[20]

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. Queen's University Alumni Journal (Spring 2022), pp. 4-5).
3. Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky, A Wondrous Necessary Man: The Villainous Subordinate in Renaissance Drama. Thesis(MA), University of Victoria, 1976.
4. 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.
5. Robinson, Maurice and Price, Paul. Royal Roads: A Celebration (Victoria: Natural Light Productions,1995). p. 33. ISBN   0-9699430-0-8
6. Joseph Conrad Today 39.2.2014, p. 23 (& issues 2012-14).
7. 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.
8. Brodsky, Stephen (1988). Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army since 1660. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger. ISBN   9780313260674.
9. Robin Higham, review of Gentlemen of the Blade, in Albion, vol. 21, no. 4, 1989, pp. 634-35.
10. Harold R. Winton, review of Gentlemen of the Blade, in American Historical Review , April 1991, pp. 503-505.
11. 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
12. Brodsky, G. W. Stephen (1993). God's Dodger: The Story of a Front Line Chaplain. Sydney, Canada: Elysium. ISBN   0-9697009-0-3.
13. Jeffery Williams, review of God's Dodger, in The Journal of Military History , Vol. 58, Issue 1-2, Jan 1994, p. 163.
14. Brodsky, Stephen (2016). 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.
15. Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech, review of Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, in Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 43, no. 2. 2019, pp. 5-7.
16. Anna Gąsienica Byrcyn, review of Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, in The Polish Review , vol. 63, no. 4. 2018, pp. 103-105.
17. Paul and Audrey Grescoe, The Book of War Letters, McLelland and Stewart, 2003, 398-400, ISBN I-55199-105-5.
18. John R. Bishop with G. W. Stephen Brodsky (co-author, introd., ed.), The King's Bishop (Review), Times-Colonist, 4 Aug 2002, p. C8.
19. 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).
20. Brodsky, G. W. Stephen, ″Intimations of Joseph Conrad: A Century of Sightings and Citings of Conrad's Presences in Print, Crafts, Media and Monuments". London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.HC: ISBN   3031679172; E-Book: ISBN   978-3031679179.