Conrad's destructive element : the metaphysical world-view unifying Lord Jim / by Kenneth B. Newell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newell, Kenneth B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Lord Jim.

Conrad, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents a new interpretation of Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim based on readings from not only its published text but also its principal manuscript text. Extensive use of the manuscript text has not been a feature of any other work on Lord Jim, and such use helps bring into focus a fixed pattern of meaning and an implicit unity that Conrad said the novel has. This result controverts not only postmodern critics, who say that the novel lacks any fixed pattern of meaning, but almost a...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; A NOTE ON EDITIONS AND DOCUMENTATION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; A NOTE ON NARRATIVE STRUCTURE; NOTES; WORKS CITED; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-142).

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-14240-6

9786613142405

1-4438-2791-6

OCLC:

821179740