A Wilderness of Words
Subtitle: Closure and Disclosure in Conrad's Short Fiction
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780896723894
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924; Technique; Literary Criticism; Short story; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Conrad, Joseph; Conrad, Joseph,; 1857-1924; Closure (Rhetoric); Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: Although Conrad is popularly recognized as the Polish expatriate who became an English sea captain before turning to fiction, he actually spent only a little more than one year as a captain (not counting his steamboat experience in the Congo) in a maritime career that spanned almost two decades (ZN, 162).