@article{oai:soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp:00017344, author = {武藤, 義人}, journal = {信州大学文理学部紀要. 第1部, 人文・社会}, month = {Mar}, note = {The intention-of this essay is to fix the meaning and function of Marlow, the unique narrator of Conrad. Marlow, who makes us aware of important problems proper to artistic activi-ty, has his origin in The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ which should be called the transitional product from the viewpoint of Conrad’s progress in method. Developing from this antecedent, Marlow shows us his particular significance and function in each of his four stories. 1.) ‘Youth’: Here we have Marlow on Marlow: he is both subject and object. In the reminiscences the past and the present clash together, and irony arises from their coincidence. Marlow exposes himself as a sentimental ironist. 2.) ‘Heart of Darkness’: Marlow seeks himself through another. He tells his journey of self-discovery using images and symbols or interpenetrating imagery of light and darkness, where the brunt of irony is directed exactly to his existence itself-to his inevitable uncertainty in depth. 3.) Lord Jim: Mariow attends to an external object more than before, but not yet absolutely: it is not Jim but what Marlow makes of him that matters. The use of imagery again conveys, in a suggestive way, the anxious uncertainty with which Marlow is preoccupied. Here is found also experiments of technique that are to develop into the elaborate method in Chance. 4.) Chance: Having got complete detachment, Mariow reappears as arranger of materials who can command the complicated method. It is ‘the artist Marlow’ that consitutes Conrad’s main interest now; the meaning of Marlow’s revival does not lie anywhere else., Article, 信州大学文理学部紀要. 第1部, 人文・社会 10: 41-56(1961)}, pages = {41--56}, title = {マーロウの意味:'Youth'からChanceに至る}, volume = {10}, year = {1961} }