Butterfly and Bulkhead: Chance, Control, Conrad

Butterfly and Bulkhead: Chance, Control, Conrad

"What a chance missed! My God! What a chance missed" Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900) Jim's lament has intriguing implications for issues of chance and control in literature, perhaps also for literary history, and certainly for the act of reading itself. This article will explore such...

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Main Author: Randall Stevenson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2006-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/571
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