Conrad’s Destructive Element : The Metaphysical World-View Unifying Lord Jim
ISBN: 9781443827911
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

This book presents a new interpretation of Joseph ConradOCOs 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..."


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