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Department of English Language and Literature

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

Abstract

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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".

Degree

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Department of English Language and Literature
Year dc:date.issued
2011

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Burling, Kathryn
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Fincham, Gail

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10194
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10194

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Burling, Kathryn. Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent. Department of English Language and Literature, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10194