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The secret agent : centennial essays /
This collection of thirteen essays by writers from several countries lavishly celebrates the centenary of the publication of Conrad's The Secret Agent . It reconsiders one of Conrad's most important political novels from a variety of critical perspectives and presents a stimulating documen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York : UK :
Rodopi ; Joseph Conrad Society,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Conradian.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Contributors; The Anarchist in the House: The Politics of Conrad's The Secret Agent; The Time of Death: "Passing Away" in The Secret Agent; A City that "disliked to be disturbed": London's Soundscape in The Secret Agent; "A heap of nameless fragments": Sacrifice, Cannibalism, and Fragmentation in The Secret Agent; No Escape: Liberation and the Ethics of Self-Governance in The Secret Agent; The Female Offender, the New Woman, and Winnie Verloc in The Secret Agent; Jews and Degenerates in The Secret Agent; Textualizing Liminality in The Secret Agent.
- The Materialist-Scientific World View in The Secret AgentTosca's Kiss: Sardou, Puccini, and The Secret Agent; An Analogous Art: Conrad's The Secret Agent and John Virtue's London Paintings and Drawings; Four Notes on The Secret Agent: Sir William Harcourt, Ford and Helen Rossetti, Bourdin's Relations, and a Warning Against?; Conrad among the Anarchists: Documents on Martial Bourdin and the Greenwich Bombing.