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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Melissa Hardie Across three women's films, the status of the literary novel in the midst of changing media environments is melodramatically plotted through the figure of “old acquaintance.” Vincent Sherman's 1943 Old Acquaintance pits the meager output of celebrated writer Katherine “Kit” Marlowe...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 326–351.
Published: 01 November 2004
... that could no longer be
steered, the old Malay's answer is reported by Marlow as follows: "[Tlhere had
been no order .. . why should he leave the helm?" (60)P Since the officers author-
ized to give such an order were openly making their escape at that very time, ths
reply obviously makes no sense...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 November 2012
... a recent anthropological line of inquiry in Conrad studies,3 I argue that this
realization does not simply provide us with a new anthropological referent with
which to approach Conrad’s enigmatic tale; it also gives us an insight into the
driving telos of Marlow’s experience, a ritual experience...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 337–360.
Published: 01 November 2006
...
MICHAEL SAYEAU
In the "Author's Note" that accompanied the second British edition of Heart of
Darkness in book form (1902), Conrad responds to the "literary speculation" (9)
that swirled around his surrogate narrator Marlow by describing their relation-
ship as if it were an actual friendship...
Journal Article
Novel (2003) 36 (2): 176–197.
Published: 01 August 2003
... structure the relativism of
modern epistemology Conrad's creation of Marlow and his embedding of
Marlow's narrative within another acknowledge that we always perceive the world
many times removed,filtered through our own consciousness and that of others, as
through a glass darkly. (63-64...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 374–397.
Published: 01 November 2003
... by even fewer. By this point in the novel, any
reader might anticipate that though we know where Jim is, in characteristic
Conradian fashion, we will soon find out precisely how he got there. And it is
only two chapters later that we learn how Marlow and the trader Stein managed
to dispatch Jim...
Journal Article
Novel (2019) 52 (2): 219–239.
Published: 01 August 2019
... is by profession an imperial collaborator. In Heart of Darkness , the novel, accounting, and imperial violence receive personification as three characters: Marlow, the accountant, and Kurtz, respectively. The imbrication of the novel, account-book, and empire first appears in the Outer Station, where Marlow meets...
Journal Article
Novel (2015) 48 (3): 323–343.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., than deserting a sinking ship is deserting one that stays afloat. An inquiry follows, and it is here that our narrator, Marlow, first meets Jim, setting in motion the particular tale we are reading as well as the events of the novel's second half. Jim, seeking to flee from his notoriety, ends up...
Journal Article
Novel (2013) 46 (3): 469–473.
Published: 01 November 2013
...-
poral tension. In this case, Zemka provides an intricate account of the moment in Joseph
Conrad’s Lord Jim by showing how Jim and Marlow suffer from panic at different levels.
The panic experienced by Jim, which takes the form of his paralysis and abandonment of
the ship, results from...
Journal Article
Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 374–377.
Published: 01 November 2008
... text: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. By focusing on the actions of
the Malay helmsmen and the strange presence of the yellow dog in the first half of the
novel, and the embedded social contexts of Patusan in the latter half, Krishnan reads
Conrad's novel against the grain of Marlow's narrative...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 479–482.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., BLAST, and Roger
Fry’s Omega Workshops. At the same time, the more aesthetic concerns of Conrad’s “artist-
imperialist” (44) will receive exemplary expression in the “self-referentiality” of Marlow’s
own narration, and particularly in those moments when the effort to communicate its
“truth...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (1): 139–142.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., is not to be liberated, is not to encounter the event but to occupy a terrifying realm of nothingness that makes even the most boring or onerous job look good. Marlow turns to work in order to avoid the “long experience” [a phrase from Walter Benjamin], in order not to know what it is that he is involved...
Journal Article
Novel (2005) 39 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2005
... arrives, in Conrad (the
subject of chapter 7), at a telos that might have been foreseen at the outset by some typically
neglected prophet: the (as it now seems) Hegelian moment at the end of Heart of Darkness
when Marlow and Kurtz's "Intended reenact, on a hgher plane of consciousness...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Paul Saint-Amour ( 15 )—the radio has been understudied, in part because the novel appears to be a less natural companion to the genre. Nevertheless, the acousmatic bodies of radio have been the novel's constant companion, in both fact and imagination. One thinks of Joseph Conrad's Marlow, who...
Journal Article
Novel (2018) 51 (1): 60–78.
Published: 01 May 2018
...” that desires its own correction ( Mitchell and Snyder 2 ). That is, Marlow's low vision constitutes a marked negation—inaugurating what I have articulated as a decline narrative—that both generates the tensions of the plot and demands its own form of narrative payback: ultimately, the expunging (by madness...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 293–296.
Published: 01 August 2011
... novel
about the loss of the colony’s affective power and Marlow’s frustration with its sluggish
inefficiencies. This is a bold interpretation, but it works surprisingly well, because this
chapter is not about detectives at all. The chapter is about the conceptual restructuring of
space across...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 307–316.
Published: 01 November 2020
... .” The break that concerns Davies, however, does not divide Coetzee's body of work but defines its entirety. “To find what a sentence like ‘Mr. Podsnap closed the book’ or ‘Philip Marlow [ sic ] closed the book’ used to mean,” writes Coetzee in 1976, is an archaeological endeavor. Included in its meaning...
Journal Article
Novel (2003) 36 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2003
... now" (48). Adela's visual transformation of colonial raw materials into fully
a modernist perception is revealing when considered alongside an earlier mo-
ment in the imperial encounter. In Conrad's Lord Jim,Marlow describes his am-
bling~outside the court in which Jim's trial takes place...
Journal Article
Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 378–381.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., uncertainty, and ambiguity) under the unbearable
weight of the hypocritical contradictions of the rhetoric of imperialist reform-the "idea at
the back of it" that Marlow names but cannot quite define, the gnomic cynicism of his
aunt, and most of all, the theory and practice of Kurtz, who materializes...
Journal Article
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 529–532.
Published: 01 November 2018
... conclusion is simply imposed. In Heart of Darkness , Marlow's lie radically betrays Conrad's new egalitarian aesthetics of infinite textuality. The sheer magnitude of sensible existence that Conrad infuses into his stories and their distance from routine life preclude any ending commensurate...
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