Conrad's Marlow : narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of darkness, Lord Jim and Chance / Paul Wake.
Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Benjamin Blanchot, Derrida, and Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality and that the meaning in his stories is at all points...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Marlow, realism, hermeneutics
- Marlow: 'Youth' and the oral tradition
- Heart of darkness and death
- Lord Jim and the structures of suicide
- Chance and the truth of literature
- Epilogue: the sense of an ending.