Seeing the animal: Colonial space and movement in Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim"
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An exploration of Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" is presented wherein two Malay helmsmen continue holding on to the wheel of 'Patna', a ship that has lost its steerage-way due to a leak discovered in it. This peculiar combination of capacity and incapacity puts one in mind of characterizations of an animal's relation to the world whereby, although an animal might powerfully manipulate its relation to its immediate surroundings, it cannot access many aspects of the world.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2004
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"Get Out!": empire migration and human traffic in Lord Jim
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The moments surrounding what has come to represent a significant break in the novel's tenor and structure, resulting in what critics conveniently refer to as the Patna and Patusan episodes are narrated. It is suggested that the novel uniquely thematizes the turbulence of empire migration and rehearses the implications of real and imagined movement at the height of imperial administration.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2003
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Superfluity and suction: the problem with saving in The Mill on the Floss
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The role of political economy in the two different plots threads of the novel 'The Mill on the Floss' is examined. It is argued that the coded critique of Richardian economics, with its adherence to Say's Law and obsession with saving, forms the philosophical armature of 'The Mill on the Floss'.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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