'SHELL AND KERNEL': A NARRATOLOGICAL APPROACH TO JOSEPH CONRAD'S LORD JIM
| Autor: | Tower I-Chun Tao, 陶逸群 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 97 Over the years, several studies have been made on Joseph Conrad’s narrative method, and some of the most compelling studies have focused on Conrad’s modernist sensibility and his exploration of a new form of aesthetics. Lord Jim serves as a model of Conrad’s aesthetic credo to build a new form of reality. The author’s invention in the novel, with its fictitious characteristics, is by no means a counterpart of a physical world, but rather, a mirror that reflects the distorted, misty impression of reality. This thesis is divided two major parts. The first part deals with the transformation from the story to the text. This is an attempt to explore the way Conrad interweaves different story materials into a textual web. The discussion will involve several distinct features of Conrad’s literary impressionism. In the second part I will discuss how the fictive text mirrors the historical, social and cultural context. To examine the text-context relationship, I will look at the bond of time and space by using Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of chronotope. |
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