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Conrad's Narratives of Difference: Not Exactly Tales for Boys

Conrad's Narratives of Difference: Not Exactly Tales for Boys

Schneider, Lissa

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors, Book 26

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0415966779
ISBN13: 9780415966771
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 12 2003
Pages: 175
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

In Joseph Conrad's tales, representations of women and of feminine generic forms like the romance are often present in fugitive ways. Conrad's use of allegorical feminine imagery, fleet or deferred introductions of female characters, and hybrid generic structures that combine features of masculine tales of adventure and intrigue and feminine dramas of love or domesticity are among the subjects of this literary study. Many of Conrad's critics have argued that Conrad's fictions are aesthetically flawed by the inclusion of women and love plots; thus Thomas Moser has questioned why Conrad did not cut them out altogether. Yet a thematics of gender suffuses Conrad's narrative strategies. Even in tales that contain no significant female characters or obvious love plots, Conrad introduces elusive feminine presences, in relationships between men, as well as in men's relationships to their ship, the sea, a shore breeze, or even in the gendered embrace of death. This book investigates an identifiably feminine point of view which is present in fugitive ways throughout Conrad's canon. Conrad's narrative strategies are articulated through a language of sexual difference that provides the vocabulary and grammar for tales examining European class, racial, and gender paradigms to provide acute and, at times, equivocal investigations of femininity and difference.

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