In exploring the tensions between the marriage plot and the food plot, the essay notices how the bleakness of the novel's social picture is reinforced by the end of eating as a "shared act", which becomes a powerful signifier of the couple's conjugal crisis.
“‘A Fresh crop of lies’: Marriage and Food as Epistemological Issues in Joseph Conrad’s The Return”
Marilena Saracino
2021-01-01
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In exploring the tensions between the marriage plot and the food plot, the essay notices how the bleakness of the novel's social picture is reinforced by the end of eating as a "shared act", which becomes a powerful signifier of the couple's conjugal crisis.File in questo prodotto:
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Descrizione: In exploring the tensions between the marriage plot and the food plot in "The Return" by J. Conrad, the essay notices how the bleakness of the novel's social picture is reinforced by the end of eating as a "shared act", which becomes a powerful signifier of the couple's conjugal crisis.
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