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Emotions versus Self-knowledge in Joseph Conrad’s "Lord Jim" and "The Shadow-Line"
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Emotions versus Self-knowledge in Joseph Conrad’s "Lord Jim" and "The Shadow-Line"
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| title: | Emotions versus Self-knowledge in Joseph Conrad’s "Lord Jim" and "The Shadow-Line" |
| author: | Krzysica Agata 
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| journal title: | Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland) |
| volume: | 11 |
| date of publication : | 2016 |
| pages: | 59-66 |
| ISSN: |
1899-3028 |
| eISSN: |
2084-3941 |
| DOI: | |
| URL: |
http://www.ejournals.eu/Yearbook-of-Conrad-Studies/2016/Issue-11/art/9112/ |
| date accessed: |
2020-03-05 |
| notes: | Na publikacji autorka podpisana Agata Kowol. Bibliogr. s. 66 |
| language: | English |
| journal language: | English |
| abstract in English: | The aim of this paper is to examine the impact that emotions exert on the process of acquisition of self-knowledge in the case of the main protagonists of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and his The Shadow-Line. What is characteristic of both is that the continuity of their safe established lives is disrupted by their sudden and impulsive actions, which determine their fates and consciousnesses: Jim’s fatal jump from the Patna, and a seemingly unmotivated resignation from a satisfactory job of the young Captain, respectively. Both actions seem to have been a result of the characters’ excessive self-centredeness, their mood swings, overheated imagination, self-delusion and undervalued self-estimation, which are typical of youth, a period marked by disproportionate emotionality and a necessity to take decisions which will shape one’s future life. In Conrad’s world, pursuit of self-knowledge assumes the proportions of a moral imperative of every human being. The cases of Jim and the young Captain are considered against the backdrop of Conrad’s epistemological scepticism and heroic ethics. |
| keywords in English: | Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, The Shadow-Line, emotions, self-knowledge, self-delusion, imagination |
| number of pulisher's sheets: | 0,61 |
| affiliation: | Pion Prorektora ds. dydaktyki : Jagiellońskie Centrum Językowe |
| type: | journal article |
| subtype: | academic paper |
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