G. W. Stephen Brodsky

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

G.W. Stephen Brodsky
Born19 November 1933
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
CitizenshipCanadian, British
EducationDoctor of Philosophy (Lit.)
OccupationArmy, (retired), research scholar, author

Life

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

Brodsky holds a Master of Arts degree (University of Victoria, Canada) in Renaissance Literature and Drama, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree (University of York, UK) in Modern Literature with specialist studies in the works of Joseph Conrad. As a military professor on the academic faculty of Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, Canada, he taught military ethics and Literature, and subsequently was a civilian Special Lecturer on Literature of War.

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

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.[1][2][3]
  • 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[4]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky, A Wondrous Necessary Man: The Villainous Subordinate in Renaissance Drama. Thesis(MA), University of Victoria, 1976.
  • G. W. Stephen Brodsky, God's Dodger: The Story of a Front Line Chaplain, Sydney, Canada, Elysium, 1993, ISBN 0-9697009-0-3.[5][6]
  • 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.[7][8][9][10]
  • 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.[11][12]

References
  1. Brodsky, Stephen (1988). Gentlemen of the Blade: A Social and Literary History of the British Army since 1660. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger. ISBN 9780313260674.
  2. Robin Higham, review of Gentlemen of the Blade, in Albion, vol. 21, no. 4, 1989, pp. 634-35.
  3. Harold R. Winton, review of Gentlemen of the Blade, in American Historical Review, April 1991, pp. 503-505.
  4. 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
  5. Brodsky, G. W. Stephen (1993). God's Dodger: The Story of a Front Line Chaplain. Sydney,Canada: Elysium. ISBN 0-9697009-0-3.
  6. Jeffery Williams, review of God's Dodger, in The Journal of Military History, Vol. 58, Issue 1-2, Jan 1994, p. 163.
  7. 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.
  8. Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech, review of Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, in Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 43, no. 2. 2019, pp. 5-7.
  9. Anna Gąsienica Byrcyn, review of Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, in The Polish Review, vol. 63, no. 4. 2018, pp. 103-105.
  10. Paul and Audrey Grescoe, The Book of War Letters, McLelland and Stewart, 2003, 398-400,ISBN I-55199-105-5.
  11. John R. Bishop with G. W. Stephen Brodsky (co-author, introd., ed.), The King's Bishop (Review), Times-Colonist, 4 Aug 2002, p. C8.
  12. 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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