Youth by Joseph Conrad . Reading this, I realized that male psychology hasn't changed much in a century. Conrad expresses basic male heroic yearnings, youthful enthusiasms and a poignant understanding of their eventual decline that seems as valid today as when they were written. I also wondered if there is a relationship between specialized lingos and the development of the novel. Conrad, Melville, and Twain write about seamanship and use the language of seamanship in a casual way- -as if we should know what all these terms mean. How many people wrote novels after having lived adventurous youths? Is this a 1. 9th century thing? Conrad's narrator- -the young midshipman Marlow- -speaks rapturously of his encounter with the East (specifically, Java). Everything after that is decline. Gatsby is a second- hand, self- consciously contrived version of an earlier, authentic American greatness. Nick Carraway praises Gatsby for his powers of self- invention, implying that Gatsby is not the real thing, that he is trying to be something he can never be. The passage from . The East is fully commensurate with Marlow's capacity to wonder. But now, wonder is directed not at the New World, but the Old World. Which leads me to the topic of Orientalism. Is Marlow's fascination with the East complementary to Carroway's sense of lost enchantment? Is Orientalism- -from the paintings of Gerome to New Age spirituality- -a symptom of the modern West's sense of agedness? Which leads me to Slavoj Zizek, and his concept of . Do Conrad and Fitzgerald exhibit signs of decadence: a belief that the best part of life- -for an individual or a nation- -has passed, that we live in a degraded, exhausted state and seek fresh sources of inspiration and vitality- -including the primitive and mysterious- -in the very parts of the world we outwardly claim to have surpassed? Category: Fiction The author of the book: Joseph Conrad Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX The size of the: 21.78 MB Language: English ISBN-13: 9781904919865. Description of the book 'Heart of Darkness, Youth and the End of the Tether': Heart of.
CONTENTS List of Illustrations page xi General Editors’ Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv Chronology xvii Abbreviations and Note on Editions xxiii INTRODUCTION xxvii Conrad’s Blackwood Connection, 1897–1902 xxviii Sources xxxiv Reception liv YOUTH,HEART. This Study Guide consists of approximately 11 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Youth. The main theme of Conrad's story is the initiation experience of Marlow on his first voyage to the 'Eastern waters.' Since.
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