
Conrad's Marlow
Narrative and Death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance
Paul Wake(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 1. October 2007
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-7190-7490-5 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-7490-5 (9780719074905)
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Paul Wake is Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University -- .
Content
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 -- .
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 -- .