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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... death for Willems . Indeed , following his first embrace of Aïssa , Willems whispers , ' I wish I could die like this - now ! ' ( 109 ) . This wish may appear to confirm Willems's madness at this point , but it actually echoes an ...
... death is the mother of beauty , for Conrad it is beauty that is the mother and daughter – of death . In this novel it is as if Conrad is unable to mention blossoms or perfume ( both evoking the female ) without thinking of mortality ...
... death - if then . The most memorable occurrence of the image of the opportunity - bride is to be found in the antepenultimate and penultimate paragraphs of Lord Jim , after Jim has been shot dead , when Marlow comments : For it may very ...
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 |
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