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Author Baxter, Katherine Isobel, 1976- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjMhrBFpCWrwrv6QGPYhgX

Title Joseph Conrad and the swan song of romance / Katherine Isobel Baxter.

Imprint Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.

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Description 1 online resource (163 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: 'Heart of Darkness' and Lord Jim; 1 'Heart of Darkness' and the Modern Quest; 2 Lord Jim: Other Words, Other Worlds; Part 2: Romance, Nostromo and Chance; 3 Anti-Philosophical Romance; 4 Nostromo: Not the Man; 5 Power, Gender and Laughter in Chance; Part 3: Victory, The Rescue and The Rover; 6 Victory: 'Damned Tricks' and Girls; 7 Theatre and Incomprehension in The Rescue; 8 The Rover: Reconciliation of Sorts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Summary In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, Katherine Isobel Baxter argues that Conrad's engagement with the genre invigorated his work throughout his career. Exploring the ways in which Conrad borrows from, alludes to, and subverts the tropes of romance, Baxter suggests that Conrad's ambivalent relationship with popular forms like the adventure novel is revealed in the way he uses romance conventions to disrupt narrative expectations and make visible ethical problems with Europe's colonial project. Baxter e.
Language English.
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Subject Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Technique.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Knowledge -- Romances.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Knowledge -- Literary form.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgmQXRHkVMwmGbV3WxVYP
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literary form
Technique
Romances
Other Form: Print version: Baxter, Katherine Isobel, 1976- Joseph Conrad and the swan song of romance. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010 9780754669029 (DLC) 2009033958 (OCoLC)433549908
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