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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Watts, Cedric Thomas. Deceptive text. Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1984 (OCoLC)562315246 |
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| Named Person: | Joseph Conrad; Joseph Conrad |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cedric Thomas Watts |
| ISBN: | 0389204595 9780389204596 |
| OCLC Number: | 10301474 |
| Description: | xiv, 203 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction to "Janiform novels" -- "Janiform novels" -- The nature and consequences of covert plot -- Conrad and delayed decoding -- The covert plot of Almayer's Folly: Abdulla's stratagem -- 'Metaphysical' plots: supernatural elements in The Nigger of the "Narcissus", Heart of Darkness, "The Secret Sharer", The Shadow-Line and Victory -- Some structural ironies of The Secret Agent -- The covert plot and the deceived narrator: Heart of Darkness, The Shadow-Line and "A Smile of Fortune" -- Transtextual narratives -- General survey -- Two major examples: Ibsen's The Wild Duck and Mann's Death in Venice -- Covert plots in ostensibly non-fictional works. |
| Responsibility: | Cedric Watts. |
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