The Functional Allusions in Conrad Aiken's Mr. Arcularis
1956; Duke University Press; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/440809
ISSN2325-8101
Autores Tópico(s)Joseph Conrad and Literature
Resumoeventually find his own corpse-signifying, of course, his approaching death, and (2) a dream of trips through cosmic space farther and farther past cold stars-which seems to signify the return of Arcularis's soul to the Absolute (see W. P. Albrecht, Explicator, VI, Apr. 1948, 40). These three spatial trips are further paralleled by a psychotemporal one wherein Mr. Arcularis eventually identifies the passenger-nurse with his mother, thereby also making a return to his mortal beginnings as he dies. Mr. Arcularis, like his creator Mr. Aiken, is a pan-aesthete, and his dozen allusions to the arts in
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