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Autore |
Wake Paul |
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Titolo |
Conrad's Marlow : narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance / / Paul Wake |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
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©2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-84779-674-5 |
1-78170-125-3 |
1-84779-197-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (145 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Soggetti |
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Marlow (Fictitious character) |
Literature |
Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Ireland |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the texts; Preface; Introduction: Marlow, realism, hermeneutics; 1 Marlow: 'Youth' and the oral tradition; 2 Heart of Darkness and death; 3 Lord Jim and the structures of suicide; 4 Chance and the truth of literature; Epilogue: the sense of an ending; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W |
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Variously described as 'the average pilgrim', a 'wanderer', and 'a Buddha preaching in European clothes', Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's 'Youth' (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900) and Chance (1912). Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar?Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Walter Benjamin, Maurice Bla |
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