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Conrad's Marlow : narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance / Paul Wake.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wake, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Characters--Charlie Marlow.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Marlow (Fictitious character).
- Marlow.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 pages) : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- A note on the texts
- Preface
- Introduction: Marlow, realism, hermeneutics
- 1. Marlow: 'Youth' and the oral tradition
- 2. Heart of Darkness and death
- 3. Lord Jim and the structures of suicide
- 4. Chance and the truth of literature
- Epilogue: the sense of an ending
- Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based on print record.
- Available through ManchesterHive.
- MUP 2020 titles.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781847796745
- 1847796745
- 9781781701256
- 1781701253
- 9781847791979
- 1847791972
- OCLC:
- 818847310
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