Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph ConradAwarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009 The book presents a sustained critique of the interlinked (and contradictory) views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is largely innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when Conrad does attempt to depict sexual desire or erotic excitement then this results in bad writing. Jeremy Hawthorn argues for a revision of the view that Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality. He argues that the comprehensiveness of Conrad's vision does not exclude a concern with the sexual and the erotic, and that this concern is not with the sexual and the erotic as separate spheres of human life, but as elements dialectically related to those matters public and political that have always been recognized as central to Conrad's fictional achievement. The book will open Conrad's fiction to readings enriched by the insights of critics and theorists associated with Gender Studies and Post-colonialism. |
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... woman is not congenial to the early Conrad's creativity' (65). Moser also blames Conrad's attempt to write about love (not sexuality), for inadequacies in the better work and for the period of his artistic 'decline'. But his account of ...
... woman is not congenial to the early Conrad's creativity' (65). Moser also blames Conrad's attempt to write about love (not sexuality), for inadequacies in the better work and for the period of his artistic 'decline'. But his account of ...
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... woman in its grip, although Conrad the man seems to have been unwilling to talk about this. Josef Retinger, in his 1941 memoir Conrad and his Contemporaries, reports that 'Once I questioned him about the love affairs of his youth, which ...
... woman in its grip, although Conrad the man seems to have been unwilling to talk about this. Josef Retinger, in his 1941 memoir Conrad and his Contemporaries, reports that 'Once I questioned him about the love affairs of his youth, which ...
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... woman in 25; in 17 of these he loses his life, in all but two instances directly or indirectly because of a woman' (273—4). Meyer perceives a recurrent pattern of implied incest in the fiction, but cautions: It is noteworthy, however ...
... woman in 25; in 17 of these he loses his life, in all but two instances directly or indirectly because of a woman' (273—4). Meyer perceives a recurrent pattern of implied incest in the fiction, but cautions: It is noteworthy, however ...
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... woman who bore him two sons. Other answers would doubtless include Conrad's use of an narrator whose possible unreliability is not obvious on first reading, one who appears to take the Count's story and his explanations of his own ...
... woman who bore him two sons. Other answers would doubtless include Conrad's use of an narrator whose possible unreliability is not obvious on first reading, one who appears to take the Count's story and his explanations of his own ...
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... woman, Marlow's amusement (a reaction that is very similar to the narrator's 'laughing aloud' in response to Captain Giles's comment in The Shadow-Line) may suggest that it involves love of a less conventional sort. What this chain or ...
... woman, Marlow's amusement (a reaction that is very similar to the narrator's 'laughing aloud' in response to Captain Giles's comment in The Shadow-Line) may suggest that it involves love of a less conventional sort. What this chain or ...
Contents
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2 The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands and Heart of Darkness | 61 |
3 The erotics of cruelty in A Smile of Fortune The Planter of Malata The Secret Agent Victory and Freya of the Seven Isles ... | 77 |
4 Voyeurism in The ShadowLine and Under Western Eyes | 131 |
Conclusion and? | 153 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 166 |
Index | 173 |
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