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Publication date: 08.05.2017
Yearbook of Conrad Studies, 2016, Vol. 11, pp. 67-73
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843941YC.16.004.6850Authors
Joseph Conrad's The End of the Tether: Les jeux sont faits
The aim of this paper is to call attention to Conrad’s rhetoric/spirit of play in his sea story The End of the Tether (1902). In my opinion, the games played by the characters of the narrative―above all Captain Whalley and the chief engineer Massy―belong among the four categories of games defined by a French sociologist Roger Caillois as: agôn, alea, mimicry, and ilinx. How good or bad the players are is a matter of the reader’s perception of Conrad’s fiction.
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Information: Yearbook of Conrad Studies, 2016, Vol. 11, pp. 67-73
Article type: Original article
University of Primorska in Slovenia
Published at: 08.05.2017
Article status: Open
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