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" The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. "
Youth: And Two Other Stories - Página 51
por Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 379 páginas
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 páginas
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea. • — something you can set up, and bow...
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Youth: And Two Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 páginas
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in/the idea — something you can set up, and bow down bfefore, and offer a sacrifice to. . . ." He...
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Black Anima

N J Loftis - 1973 - 132 páginas
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to. ......
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Joseph Conrad: The Major Phase

Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 páginas
...obviously even more in need of justification than the merchant seaman. But what justification can there be? 'What redeems it is the idea only... An idea at the...back of it; not a sentimental pretence, but an idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to.' This seems to be a return...
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Joseph Conrad: Third World Perspectives

Robert D. Hamner - 1990 - 294 páginas
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only."16 Notice not only the explictness of the indictment but also the use of "blind" and "darkness."...
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London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin

Rob Nixon - 1992 - 240 páginas
...African tales, Naipaul finds contemporary counterparts to the weak colonials, "unredeemed by an idea, not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea," people, in Naipaul's words, "too simple for an outpost of progress." 38 Reading "An Outpost of Progress"...
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Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions

G. W. Trompf - 1994 - 574 páginas
...the taking it away from those who have a different or slighdy flatter nose than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.' Joseph Contrad Heart of Darkness 'For good and ill belong to man alone, when he stands alone on the...
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Macropolitics of Nineteenth-century Literature: Nationalism, Exoticism ...

Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo - 1995 - 324 páginas
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...pretence but an idea and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to ... (31-32) The colonist,...
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Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma: "bewildered Traveller"

John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - 262 páginas
...imperialists themselves as a 'tribe' who superstitiously worship in a sort of elevated ancestor cult: 'What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down...
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Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994

Patrick Brantlinger - 1996 - 308 páginas
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to" (7). Conrad's fetishistic...
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