Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph ConradAwarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009 |
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... Heemskirk , who is treated with cruelty and contempt by Freya and who reciprocates by cruelly destroying Jasper's brig and thus , in effect , his life . In some ways the triangle of Heemskirk , Freya and Jasper duplicates that of Falk ...
... Heemskirk destroys the Bonito and ruins the young lovers , the erotic explosion comes in a long scene that opens with Heemskirk spying on Freya as she watches Jasper on his brig . Against the background of this serial voyeurism an ...
... Heemskirk's sexual frustration and pain , and if Heemskirk enjoys destroying the Bonito and thus ( given the way in which the brig has been identified with Freya ) symbolically killing Freya and effectively ( and literally ) killing ...
Contents
Lord Jim The ShadowLine and Victory | 17 |
The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands | 61 |
The erotics of cruelty in A Smile of Fortune | 77 |
Copyright | |
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