Open AccessIndirect narration : a case study of Conrad's Heart of darkness and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Author(s) -
Majda Šavle
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-417X
pISSN - 0567-784X
DOI - 10.4312/an.40.1-2.117-127
Subject(s) - narrative , style (visual arts) , literature , darkness , speculation , history , philosophy , art , art history , economics , macroeconomics , botany , biology
Joseph Conrad's narrative style bas influenced many writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald. The objective of my study on verbs used in discourse in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was to confirm the speculation that besides Conrad's innovative technique of indirect narration there were other techniques (such as careful selection of imagistic detail) Fitzgerald learned from Conrad.