Conrad's Marlow narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of darkness, Lord Jim and Chance / Paul Wake.

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Wake, Paul [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press ; (c)2007.; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 145 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781847791979

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PR6005 .C667 2007

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Contents:

Marlow: 'Youth' and the oral tradition -- Heart of darkness and death -- Lord Jim and the structures of suicide -- Chance and the truth of literature -- Epilogue: the sense of an ending.

Summary: Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Benjamin Blanchot, Derrida, and Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality and that the meaning in his stories is at all points bound up with the process of his storytelling.

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PR6005.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn648671396

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Marlow, realism, hermeneutics -- Marlow: 'Youth' and the oral tradition -- Heart of darkness and death -- Lord Jim and the structures of suicide -- Chance and the truth of literature -- Epilogue: the sense of an ending.

Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Benjamin Blanchot, Derrida, and Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality and that the meaning in his stories is at all points bound up with the process of his storytelling.

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