Cannibalism and the Greely Arctic Expedition: A New Source for Joseph Conrad’s “Falk”
The sources of Conrad's novels and short stories have always excited the interest of critics and scholars. That of "Falk: A Reminiscence" has, however, never been studied in depth. The aim of this paper is to present evidence to show that a possible source of "Falk" can be f...
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Rodopi
2011
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| Online Access: | https://research.stmarys.ac.uk/id/eprint/3643/ http://www.jstor.org/stable/20873715 |
| Summary: | The sources of Conrad's novels and short stories have always excited the interest of critics and scholars. That of "Falk: A Reminiscence" has, however, never been studied in depth. The aim of this paper is to present evidence to show that a possible source of "Falk" can be found in newspaper reports of the 1881 Greely Arctic Expedition that Conrad may have known about and followed in the press. |
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