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Reading Joseph Conrad: Episodes from the Coast
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 1, March 2014
- pp. 41-67
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0009
- Article
- Additional Information
Delivered as a lecture at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, in March 2013, on the eve of the second anniversary of “the events,” as Royle’s host called them, this essay is, in part, about Fukushima. It focuses in a timely/untimely way on Conrad’s remarkable story “Typhoon.” The essay also connects to various themes raised in the preceding “Quick Fictions” lecture, including in particular the notion of quick fiction.