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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 0.1 PAGE PAGE 10 Introduction Critical Review of Nostromo Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is acknowledged to be one of the most important literature figures in the twentieth century. As a peculiar writer in the transition of Victorian era and the twentieth century, he is famous for the deep insight into human nature and great concern for human existing conditions. Owing to his own various life experiences, his special years on the sea and his long-term living in various countries, his writings are full of colorful stories, various characters, and show special interests in human thought and activities in strange land and extreme conditions. Because of Conrad’s great moral concern for life, English critic F. R. Leavis speaks highly of him and announces him to belong to the four “great English novelists” (9). Conrad’s literary career is usually divided into three periods. The first period is a short period with largely Malay fictions ending in 1896. The major phase extends from 1897 to 1911, and the last period consists of later fiction from 1911 to his death in 1924. His second period extending from The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897) to Under Western Eyes (1911) is regarded to be most important. The works in this phase establish Conrad’s stature as “one of the dozen greatest fiction-writers in English” (Watts 31). Among those works Nostromo of 1904 alone would “have sufficed to give Conrad an enduring reputation as a major writer” (ibid.). The present study will center mainly on one of Conrad’s influential novels in this period: Nostromo. Nostromo is regarded by F. R. Leavis to be Conrad’s “m