Conrad's Marlow : narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance / / Paul Wake
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (145 pages) : digital file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 823.912 |
| Soggetto topico: | Marlow (Fictitious character) |
| Literature | |
| Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | |
| Ireland | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | English literature |
| Joseph Conrad | |
| Marlow | |
| Modernists | |
| character | |
| emergence of meaning | |
| literary theorists | |
| popular novels | |
| storytelling | |
| twentieth-century novelists | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Conrad's Marlow |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-674-5 |
| 1-78170-125-3 | |
| 1-84779-197-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788620303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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