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湘潭大学 学位论文原创性声明 本人郑重声明：所呈交的论文是本人在导师的指导下独立进行研究所 取得的研究成果。除了文中特别加以标注引用的内容外，本论文不包含任 何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写的成果作品。对本文的研究做出重要贡 献的个人和集体，均已在文中以明确方式标明。本人完全意识到本声明的 法律后果由本人承担。 作者签名： 日期： 年 月 日 学位论文版权使用授权书 本学位论文作者完全了解学校有关保留、使用学位论文的规定，同意 学校保留并向国家有关部门或机构送交论文的复印件和电子版，允许论文 被查阅和借阅。本人授权湘潭大学可以将本学位论文的全部或部分内容编 入有关数据库进行检索，可以采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存和汇 编本学位论文。 涉密论文按学校规定处理。 作者签名： 日期： 年 月 日 导师签名： 日期： 年 月 日 Introduction PAGE PAGE 10 Introduction Joseph Conrad (1857—1924), the British novelist and short story writer whose major works appeared between 1895 and 1924, is considered one of the most important novelists of twentieth-century writing in English. Conrads works mark a shift from the novel as popular entertainment to the novel as high art, an art as carefully crafted as poetry. His experiments in fictional form and narrative prepared the way for the technical innovations of novelists Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and John Fowles; his characteristic themes of alienation and thwarted heroism and his preoccupation with individuals in remote places have had continuing impact on writers throughout this century. Conrad was accepted in the early 1920’s as England’s greatest living novelist but was pretty well forgotten after his death. Thank such critic as F. R. Leavis who comments in his The Great Tradition: “[…] Conrad is among the very greatest novelists in the language – or any language.” (Leavis 257), this Polish-born English writer has received constant attention from the critical world. A mutitude of thesis and works are produced to voice different understandings about its linguistics, stylistic and structural features. As for Conrad’s early works, which although hitherto are restricted to the study of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim in the domestic critical circle, they present rich value to be studied. An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the second part of Conrad’s Malayan trilogy①, is especially one of “the most bitterly ironic studies of racism, colonialism, and the complexities of ethnic an