Commitment to society and to the self as a mark of modernity: an examination of Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim

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Özdağ, Hakan
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Self-knowledge in literature, Self-love in literature
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/961
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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H. Özdağ, “Commitment to society and to the self as a mark of modernity: an examination of Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 1995.
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