ARTS1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Solipsism, Frock Coat, Robert Louis Stevenson
16 Oct 2018
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10/09/18 heart of darkness 1899 - joseph conrad, holds significance in popular culture - eg. francis f. coppola"s apocalypse. Wells), detektif (conan doyle): thus writing in a literary time where a mass market for fiction has arisen, conrad"s story is situated in relation to this and these genres. Joseph conrad: born 1857 in berdichev (now in the ukraine, conrad"s family was punished as his father was a polish nationalist, propaganda etc. They were forced to leave: leaves poland in 1874 to become a sailor, 1878 - joins british (he was previously working with the french) steamer the. Literary impressionism (as an aesthetic: how something appears to an observer, rather than how it objectively is. "a door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary. Its light was dim, and a heavy writing-desk squatted in the middle.
