Conrad's Marlow: Narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of darkness, Lord Jim and Chance
Paul Wake
Variously described as 'the average pilgrim', a 'wanderer', and 'a Buddha preaching in European clothes', Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900) and Chance (1912).
Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar?
Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality in his constantly shifting position and that the emergence of meaning in his stories is at all points bound up with the process of his storytelling
Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar?
Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality in his constantly shifting position and that the emergence of meaning in his stories is at all points bound up with the process of his storytelling
种类:
年:
2007
出版:
1
出版社:
Manchester University Press
语言:
english
页:
145
ISBN 10:
1847791972
ISBN 13:
9781847791979
文件:
PDF, 1015 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2007