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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... symbolic of his tendency to avoid pain in general – and , ultimately , reality itself . Thus his ' rheumatic affection ' ( like Ransome's bad heart ) symbolizes his own animality , his own mortality ; and his ' dislike of the busts and ...
... symbolic plane . On the realistic plane , Ransome takes over the duties of the steward who dies shortly after the new captain takes command of his ship , combining them with his existing duties as cook . But symbolically he also takes ...
... symbolic level Marlow's burning face has phallic power through its association with the sun and the sun's sexual ... symbolic sexual consummation on the part of the natural world , and that the homoerotic implications of 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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