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Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent

This dissertation will investigate how Conrad's "purely artistic purpose" comes under ethical review as reader, character and author renegotiate the terms of the story's telling - specifically (to pursue the novel's haunting reference to Othello) with regard to "the pity of it".

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Main Author: Burling, Kathryn
Other Authors: Fincham, Gail
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of English Language and Literature 2014
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10194 Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent Burling, Kathryn Fincham, Gail English Literature This dissertation will investigate how Conrad's "purely artistic purpose" comes under ethical review as reader, character and author renegotiate the terms of the story's telling - specifically (to pursue the novel's haunting reference to Othello) with regard to "the pity of it". 2014-12-27T14:00:26Z 2014-12-27T14:00:26Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10194 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town
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Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
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title Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
title_full Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
title_fullStr Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
title_full_unstemmed Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
title_short Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
title_sort telling realities the story of winnie verloc in joseph conrad s the secret agent
topic English Literature
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10194
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