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Youth: And Two Other Stories - Page 114
by Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 339 pages
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream [of light, or Hie deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness....other shoe went flying unto the devil-god of that liver. I thought, By Jove! it's all over. We are too iate; he has vanished — the gift has vanished,...
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Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance

Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 298 pages
..."the bewildering", "the illuminating", " the most exalted", " the most contemptible", "the pulsating stream of light", or " the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness", he was translating directly from the French in his mind. Or when he wrote, "Their glance was guileless,...
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Complete Works, Volume 16

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pages
...expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.: "The other shoe wenYTIying unto the devil-god of that river. I thought, By Jove! it's all over. We are too late; he...
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Joseph Conrad: The Major Phase

Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 pages
...expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness. 'Heart of Darkness', pp. 113-14 Without what Conrad calls impersonality - the moral capacity for resistance...
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Beginnings: Intention and Method

Edward W. Said - 1985 - 442 pages
...expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted, and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness. In achieving a position of mastery over man, language has reduced him to a discursive function. The...
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The Victorian Fol Sage: Comparative Readings on Carlyle, Emerson, Melville ...

Camille R. La Bossière - 1989 - 150 pages
.... . bewildering . . . illuminating, [is] the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness" (113-14). The gifted rhetorician may indeed provide "practical hints" on occasion, but only by a non...
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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 pages
...expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, lhe pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart...other shoe went flying unto the devil-god of that mer. I thought, by Jove! it's all over. We are too late; he has vanished — the gift has vanished,...
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Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism

Mark Wollaeger - 1990 - 288 pages
...desires. But before experiencing the deep duplicity of Kurtz's "gift of expression . . . the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness" (HD 113-14), Marlow comes face to face with a parody of his own desire to believe in Kurtz in the figure...
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Genres in Discourse

Tzvetan Todorov - 1990 - 150 pages
...expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness" (Heart of Darkness, 48). But Kurtz only exemplifies something much more general, which is the possibility...
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Conrad's Fiction as Critical Discourse

Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pages
...expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness" (113-114). Conrad resorts to a string of paradoxes to recast the light-darkness opposition structuring...
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