![]() ![]() ![]() However, few studies have approached the text as an art. But such interpretations have often offered a less clear view about the texts and as a result, many accuse the author of being obscured. Thus, most of the critics read the text as philosophy, while others read the texts as allegory or a testimony of the author or his society. ![]() The conclusion is that these readings have assumed Lord Jim offers codes for interpreting society or life. The paper therefore shows that source study, reader response investigation, aesthetics analysis, modernist view, postcolonial readings, religious and moral approaches, stylistics, queer reading and other heterologous readings have dominated the scholarly works on Lord Jim. ![]() By so doing the paper answers the question on ways through which Lord Jim is read. Such critical readings have been examined here, considering the topical, thematic as well as theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have guided the studies. This paper randomly picks some of the papers according to the various ways the scholars have studied the text for a review. There are much scholarly readings of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, NigeriaĬritical, reading, Conrad, Lord Jim Abstract ![]()
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