Joseph Conrad and the anxiety of knowledge

Joseph Conrad and the anxiety of knowledge / William Freedman.

Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided or marveled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying ch...

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Main Author: Freedman, William, 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Ambivalent fabulist, indeterminate fables
  • Forbidden knowledge and the saving illusion
  • The lie of fiction: Heart of darkness
  • The soft spot: Lord Jim
  • A more dangerous revolution: Under western eyes
  • Drowning in the romance of the shallows: The rescue
  • Appendix: Woman and truth, the history of an association.

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