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Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).
Conrad served his “apprenticeship” under the influence of the French author Gustave Flaubert and British author Rudyard Kipling. [6] [7]The two ivory dealers portrayed in “The Outpost of Progress” closely resemble the chief protagonists in Flaubert’s novel Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881), “as classic revelation of bourgeois stupidity and pretension.” [8] Literary critic Laurence ...
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim.
Literary critic Laurence Graver reports that Conrad's opinion of the story improved when publisher Edward Garnett decided to collect the work in its entirety rather than serializing it. [6] In a measure of Conrad's ambivalence towards the work, he later wrote that "The Return" was "not a tale for puppy dogs nor for maids of thirteen.
Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655. Potiphar's wife is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran . She was the wife of Potiphar , the captain of Pharaoh's guard in the time of Jacob and his twelve sons .
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[211] Achebe's essay, a landmark in postcolonial discourse, provoked debate, and the questions it raised have been addressed in most subsequent literary criticism of Conrad. [ 212 ] [ 213 ] [ 214 ] Achebe's critics argue that he fails to distinguish Marlow's view from Conrad's, which results in very clumsy interpretations of the novella. [ 215 ]
The founders did not foresee the emergence of political parties and their winner-take-all slates of electors, which make a mockery of all presumptions of virtuous choosing by a select few.