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On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes
resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo
fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain
of tropical fishes, and crazy of as...
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Biography EssayJoseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to ...
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The Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was concerned with men under stress, deprived of the ordinary supports of civilized life and forced to confront the mystery of human individu...
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Writing in his The Great Tradition, the respected critic F. R. Leavis noted that Joseph Conrad "is among the greatest novelists in the language--in any language." Indeed, language is at the very heart...
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Joseph Conrad 's reputation as a literary figure of major proportions rests entirely on his fiction. In relation to this large canon his dramatic works are incidental, derivative, and slight in volume...
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Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perpl...
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Joseph Conrad's reputation as a major modern writer rests almost exclusively on his novels and short fiction. But even if his five volumes of occasional writings only infrequently achieve the high dis...
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The short fiction of Joseph Conrad is central to his literary achievement. Conrad wrote forty-three works of fiction, of which thirty-one are short, ranging from stories of a few pages to novellas of ...
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In the following essay, Facknitz investigates references to the Old Testament in Conrad's “The Secret Sharer.”
There is little theoretical work on allusion, and what there is t...
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Stallman is an American educator, poet, essayist, and critic. In the following excerpt, he interprets "The Secret Sharer" as an allegory of Conrad's artistic struggle.
One meas...
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Said is a prominent American educator and critic who has written widely on modern critical theories. In the following excerpt, he analyzes autobiographical elements in "The Secret Sharer....
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In the following essay, Gilley maintains that the action of "The Secret Sharer" is implausible.
Joseph Conrad wrote "The Secret Sharer" in November of 1909. It is a stor...
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Curley was an American educator, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and critic. In the following essay, he examines Conrad's use of historical and autobiographical materials in "T...
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Graver is an American educator, biographer, and critic. In the following excerpt, he asserts that the psychological aspects of "The Secret Sharer" are widely overemphasized and the story...
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In the following essay, Brown illustrates how Leggatt exemplifies the ideals of existentialism.
Discussions of Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" have emphasized that the narrator...
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In the following essay, Bidwell discusses parallels to the biblical story of Moses in "The Secret Sharer."
Of all Conrad's stories none word-for-word has generated more comment...
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In the following essay, Schenck examines "The Secret Sharer" as the story of the narrator's development as a ship's captain, asserting that earlier criticism of the story l...
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Cox is an English educator, editor, and critic. In the following excerpt, he suggests that critical debate over "The Secret Sharer" is due in part to the fact that the story raises quest...
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In the following essay, Burjorjee demonstrates the presence of comic elements in "The Secret Sharer."
Ere Babylon was dust,The Magus Zoroaster, my dead...
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In the following excerpt, Ressler offers his interpretation of "The Secret Sharer," noting that the exploration of individual morality is Conrad's major concern in the story.
I...
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An American novelist, short story writer, biographer, and critic, Guerard is also the author of two studies of Conrad, Joseph Conrad (1947), and Conrad the Novelist (1958). In the following excerpt fr...
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Quinones is an American educator and critic. In the following excerpt, he examines Conrad's treatment of the Cain and Abel story in "The Secret Sharer," asserting that Conrad ...
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In the following essay Andreas discusses Conrad's treatment of the individual versus society in "The Secret Sharer.'
Official society, represented by government officers and th...
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"The Secret Sharer" is an uncommon tale for Conrad, rare in its power of affirmation, and, because of its optimism, an uncommonly cheerful phosphorescence in the rather gloomy sea of Con...
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Baines was an English editor and critic. In the following excerpt from his Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography, which has been acclaimed as the definitive study of Conrad, he argues that the text of &...
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Day is an American educator, editor, and critic. In the following essay, he maintains that "The Secret Sharer" contains a double narrative that depicts both the maturation of the narrato...
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In the following essay, Williams interprets "The Secret Sharer" as an exploration of the narrator's capacity for immoral behavior and his rescue from the consequences of that beha...
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In the following essay, O'Hara asserts that the narrator of "The Secret Sharer fails to absorb the lessons of Leggatt's experience.
There are only three major hindrances to nav...
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In the following essay, Simmons argues that the character of Leggatt represents an ideal of morality in the context of maritime discipline.
There is a notable chronological relationship between ...
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In the following essay, Westbrook investigates the influence of Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend on Conrad's “The Secret Sharer.”
Joseph Conrad had a lifelong fondnes...
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In the following essay, Erdinast-Vulcan asserts that the captain-narrator of “The Secret Sharer” expresses a conflict between an aesthetic and an ethical mode of being.
The statement,...
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In the following essay, Schaffer contends that the character of Leggatt in “The Secret Sharer” is a figure drawn from the Jewish legend of the Golem.
Conrad's novella “T...
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In the following essay, Platt analyzes ethical issues in “The Secret Sharer,” contending that the narrator eventually satisfies the “conflicting claims of natural right and conven...
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In the following essay, Stape elucidates the symbolic significance of Conrad's topographical descriptions in “The Secret Sharer” in terms of existential isolation and the inner ...
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In the following essay, Richardson argues that the narrator of “The Secret Sharer” is an unreliable narrator, and that the narrative may be read as a “skeptical parody” of ...
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In the following essay, Schwartz provides an overview of the critical reception of Conrad's “The Secret Sharer” as well as a psychoanalytic interpretation of the story.
I. Biogr...
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In the following essay, Davis explores the theme of justice in “The Secret Sharer” in terms of the realities of nineteenth-century British maritime law.
The relationships of the three...
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In the following essay, Thomas examines the motif of the double in Conrad's “The Secret Sharer,” Lord Jim, and The Shadow Line.
One way Joseph Conrad rebelled against the (appa...
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In the following essay, Philips compares Conrad's “The Secret Sharer” with two film adaptations of the story.
“the Secret Sharer”: the Short Story
Conrad recalls ...
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In the following essay, Devers provides an interpretation of key symbols in “The Secret Sharer.”
Despite the many critical articles written on “The Secret Sharer,” I bel...
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In the following essay, Casarino regards the closet as a crucial locus of same-sex desire and investigates the possibility of a homosexual relationship between Leggatt and the narrator of “The ...
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In the following essay, French compares Conrad's “The Secret Sharer” with the film adaptation included in the two-part movie Face to Face.
In 1952, RKO Radio Pictures produced ...
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In the following essay, Billy discusses “The Secret Sharer” as a coming-of-age or rite-of-passage story and surveys several of Conrad's stories that feature young, male ship capta...
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In the following essay, Miller maintains that the image of the floppy hat at the end of “The Secret Sharer” is linked to certain biblical allusions from the Book of Ecclesiastes.
In r...
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Joseph Conrad addresses a theme, which affects our lives every day, at home, at work and even in the public. This theme is secrecy, which is one of the major aspects of the short story "The Secret Sha...
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