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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... exotic vegetation could be exploited is to be found in Chapter 25 of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day ( 1919 ) , the action of which takes place in Kew Gardens . Katharine Hilbery is surprised to discover that while for her the flowers ...
... exotic ' . Generally speaking Conrad uses the word ' exotic ' to indicate the bemusement of a European observer when confronted by the alien but unthreatening life – natural and social – of non- European locations . For example , after ...
... exotic ' but is rendered ' exasperated , amazed and helpless ' ( 99 ) by this evidence that he is unable to assimilate her into his own culture . Writing his ' Author's Note ' so many years after the publication of An Outcast of the ...
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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