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Braving the Seas: The Swimmer Image in Conrad's Fiction

Publication date: 08.05.2017

Yearbook of Conrad Studies, 2016, Vol. 11, pp. 87 - 92

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843941YC.16.006.6852

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Narain Prasad Shukla
Hadhramout University, Mukalla, Republic of Yemen
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Braving the Seas: The Swimmer Image in Conrad's Fiction

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the recurrence of the image of a swimmer in the fiction of Joseph Conrad. The image appears at the key place of the narrative and constitutes its turning point. It functions in Conrad’s fiction in two forms: as a metaphor for individual struggle against destiny, and as a device of characterisation. In both forms the image constitutes an instrument of integration of Conrad’s works, which are otherwise widely different from one another in tone, texture, colouring and content.
 

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Aubry Jean, G. Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters, 2 Vols., Garden City, NY 1927.

Conrad Joseph, Collected Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, 21 Vols., London 1946-55.

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Information: Yearbook of Conrad Studies, 2016, Vol. 11, pp. 87 - 92

Article type: Original article

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Hadhramout University, Mukalla, Republic of Yemen

Published at: 08.05.2017

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