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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DiSanto, Michael John, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009
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.