Joseph Conrad betrayal and identity
Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualized self. It shows how the early fiction negotiates...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York
St. Martin's Press
1992
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. in the United States of America |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualized self. It shows how the early fiction negotiates the opposed dangers of the self-ideal and the surrender to passion; how the middle fiction tests the ideal code psychologically and ideologically; and how the late fiction probes sexuality and morbid psychology. It challenges the conventional construction of Conrad's career in terms of 'achievement and decline', and makes illuminating use of Laingian psychology. |
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 326 S. |
| ISBN: | 0312072732 |