Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph ConradAwarded third place for The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2009 The book presents a sustained critique of the interlinked (and contradictory) views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is largely innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when Conrad does attempt to depict sexual desire or erotic excitement then this results in bad writing. Jeremy Hawthorn argues for a revision of the view that Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality. He argues that the comprehensiveness of Conrad's vision does not exclude a concern with the sexual and the erotic, and that this concern is not with the sexual and the erotic as separate spheres of human life, but as elements dialectically related to those matters public and political that have always been recognized as central to Conrad's fictional achievement. The book will open Conrad's fiction to readings enriched by the insights of critics and theorists associated with Gender Studies and Post-colonialism. |
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... narrator to a group of listeners , standard editions indicate this by placing a quotation mark at the start of each narrated paragraph . I have retained such quotation marks when citing from these editions , although this may sometimes ...
... narrator pursues this similarity . ' Don't be shocked if I declare that in my belief it was the same need , the same pain , the same torture ' ( 224 ) . Just as the starving Falk has eaten human flesh rather than die , so too his desire ...
... narrator of ' The Secret Sharer ' , and the teacher of languages in Under Western Eyes . One of the simpler tasks that I have set myself in the pages that follow is just that of establishing how pervasive - how near - universal – the ...
... narrator Marlow comments of Mrs Fyne that The good woman was making up to her husband's chess - player simply because she had scented in him that small portion of ' femininity , ' that drop of superior essence of which I am myself aware ...
... narrator - captain's own sexuality and not another independent being to whom the captain can be sexually attracted . ( The debt owed by this story to the tradition of the double or Doppelgänger is crucial to its ability to present ...
Contents
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2 The exotic and the erotic in An Outcast of the Islands and Heart of Darkness | 61 |
3 The erotics of cruelty in A Smile of Fortune The Planter of Malata The Secret Agent Victory and Freya of the Seven Isles ... | 77 |
4 Voyeurism in The ShadowLine and Under Western Eyes | 131 |
Conclusion and? | 153 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 166 |
Index | 173 |