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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... knowing reading of ' Il Conde ' has effectively destroyed the innocent one . And while the emergence of the knowing reading of ' Il Conde ' has not led to the same sort of divide among critics as have Freudian and neo- Freudian readings ...
... knowing ' reading is made public ( James's governess does not see ghosts , they are the product of her sexual frustrations ; Conrad's Count is not a saintly old man but a gay roué cruising for young men ) the tale can never again be ...
... knowing ' Conrad is not the Conrad who was familiar to readers for most of the twentieth century . Thus the second answer to the question that I posed above is one that I have already suggested : the knowing reading of ' Il Conde ' took ...
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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