Some Patterns of Imagery in Joseph Conrad's Typhoon

<p>Critics of Joseph Conrad's works are in general agreement concerning the merits of Typhoon, a long short-story written in 1901. F. R. Leavis, who defends Conrad against the charge of being always melodramatic, considers it to represent Conrad's "strength... in its purest form." Nine years later, Robert F. Haugh praised the tale as "remarkable for its exquisite balance and symmetry." Hugh Walpole, one of Conrad's early admirers, believes that Typhoon, is "poet's work at its finest," while R. L. Megroz, representing a period later than Walpole but earlier than the recent interest in Conrad, points out that "it is carried through by the unresting speed and glamour of the style and by Conrad’s wonderful character sketches."</p> <p>The point of disagreement among the critics who value Typhoon highly, concerns the various factors in the tale which make it a masterpiece of its kind. Most attention has been paid to characterization, some to plot, some to Conrad's methods of handling chronology and narration, and some to "verbal felicity."…</p> <p> …I have chosen to explore in this paper, the “striking images” which Conrad uses in Typhoon. I believe that a careful analysis of the tale will show the reader that one of the chief aspects of Conrad’s style in Typhoon is the careful choice of language and imagery to support the narrative theme, so that these images are indeed “at once concrete an symbolic.”</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Humanities

Year

1960

Author dc:creator

• Seaver, Lillian fitzgerald

• Humanities
• Arts and Humanities

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/84

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1083