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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... passage is arresting and suggestive , but considered alongside Pasquale's explanatory comment - ' of very nice young men ' - it seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that ' nice young men ' and ' nice boys ' are phrases that imply ...
... passage contains a succession of hints that , taken together , do suggest that something more than innocent , asexual male companionship is being proposed to the reader . Key elements in this passage include Mr Denver's bachelor status ...
... passage in Maupassant's Une Vie is undeniably far more overt in its sexual meaning than is the echo of the passage in Lord Jim . Even so , Conrad's apparent recollection and adaptation of Maupassant's graphic description suggests that ...
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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