CONTENTS:- The Gothic Tradition and Conard; Conard's Theme (I): The Secret Self; Conard's Theme (II): The Political Gothic Narrative Strategies; Imagery and Atmosphere.
DESCRIPTION
Joseph Conard's consistent concern is with the state of man vis-à-vis nature, ideas and ideals in a complex world. His treatment of his protagonists and themes addresses the modernists concerns and views of man as placed in a political universe. Whether it is the pushed and pulls of man's inner self or the outer world, man's movement in the universe is shown to be oscillatory rather then linear.
