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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... passionate ' and ' fecund ' help to link her in the reader's mind with sexuality . In Heart of Darkness , then , sexuality is never so overt as it is in An Outcast of the Islands , while passion is less explicitly linked with sex . This ...
... passion had enslaved him to the circus - rider , so now the captain becomes helpless in his passion for Alice ' ( 1964 , 100 ) . It may well be that the account in this story of the time when ' a wandering circus came to the island and ...
... passion first appears and then evaporates . Because Felicia's ' unworthiness ' does not give Renouard power over her , it cannot be used to explain her erotic force for him . Renouard , like the captain , also makes passionate physical ...
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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