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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... fact that the tale opens with the narrator and the Count meeting while gazing at the statue of a beautiful and naked male youth whose posture is picked up later in the tale in the posture of the young robber . And it passes over , too ...
... fact that the Count himself chooses to sit at the same table as the seated young man who later robs him in the dark alley , what are we to make of the fact that after meeting through their shared admiration for the Resting Hermes in the ...
... fact that Marlow's reaction is triggered by the word ' love ' suggests that the implied but rejected meaning is sexual in nature . And although the two men could have been talking about love between a man and a woman , Marlow's ...
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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