Under Conrad's eyes : the novel as criticism /
Joseph Conrad's novels are recognized as great works of fiction, but they should also be counted as great works of criticism. A voracious reader throughout his life, Conrad wrote novels that question and transform the ideas he encountered in non-fiction, novels, and scientific and philosophic w...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2009
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Colección: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
41. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: something of an intellectual
- The dangers of Carlyle's heroic work in Heart of darkness
- The despair of knowing in Bleak house and The secret agent
- The trouble with sympathy in Middlemarch and Nostromo
- Dostoevsky's last confession in Under western eyes
- Living to die in Lord Jim
- Conrad versus Nietzsche versus Christ
- Conclusion: future work.