Book contents
- Conrad’s Decentered Fiction
- Conrad’s Decentered Fiction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Preprint Documents
- Chapter 1 Doodles and The Shadow-Line
- Chapter 2 Maps and Victory, “Geography and Some Explorers,” “The Secret Sharer” and An Outcast of the Islands
- Chapter 3 Drawings and The Sisters
- Part II Published Texts
- Part III Patterns and Preoccupations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - Doodles and The Shadow-Line
from Part I - Preprint Documents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
Book contents
- Conrad’s Decentered Fiction
- Conrad’s Decentered Fiction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Preprint Documents
- Chapter 1 Doodles and The Shadow-Line
- Chapter 2 Maps and Victory, “Geography and Some Explorers,” “The Secret Sharer” and An Outcast of the Islands
- Chapter 3 Drawings and The Sisters
- Part II Published Texts
- Part III Patterns and Preoccupations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Although doodling is a break from putting words on the page, it is not necessarily a pause from writing, because the process includes reflection. This chapter explores the ways doodling and writing may have intertwined for Conrad, who – like his characters Blunt, Razumov and Stevie – doodled; in the Shadow-Line holograph there are 109 doodles. By moving his doodles from the margins of the manuscript to the center of discussion, a visual portrait emerges of an artist for whom “procrastination” and productivity worked in delayed symbiosis.
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- Conrad's Decentered Fiction , pp. 21 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022