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Conradâs Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conradâs 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? -- .

Table of 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

Conrads Marlow

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2007
      ISBN13: 9780719074905, 978-0719074905
      ISBN10: 719074908

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Conradâs Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conradâs 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? -- .

      Table of 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

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