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One Of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad.
From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 19990101
Author:CARABINE, KEITH
One Of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad. By GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xiv+211 pp. $35;[pound]27.95 (paperbound $14.95;[pound]11.95).
This ambitious and widely acclaimed book 'represents an attempt at a theory of production, a psychology of composition that does not simply shoulder the ill, distracted desperate man off to the side' (p. xi). In three long chapters it converts Conrad's three lives (Pole, seaman, writer) into three 'strata', namely 'Poland, Nature, and Language' (p. x). These 'divisions' are all exploited ...
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