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The problem of representation of power relations in the narrative discourse is one of Joseph Conrad’s constant concerns. The struggles for dominance between diverse social forces the struggle for dominance between diverse social forces are well represented in languages and discourses. Particularly the social conflicts in Nostromo are embodied as a form of struggle between centripetal and centrifugal forces. The history of Costaguana, an imaginary republic, is a record of her political turbulence reveals that there is impulse and pressure towards a standardisation imposed and maintained by the central authority of the country and at the same time the urge towards diversity and polyphony. The conflicting history of Costaguana is a product of dialogic struggles of dominant social voices. The initial ideological positions of major characters like Gould and Nostromo are modified and changed by dialogic struggles. Every voice of the characters in Nostromo contends with the others and at the same time collides with the narrator’s voice. The manipulation of narrative voice and character’s contributes to the whole narrative dynamics of the novel, creating the effect of a constant lively dialogic relationship between the character’s centrifugal voice and the centripetal narrative authority. Bringing diverse social voices and heteroglossia into the narrative discourse and combining them within it as a form of struggle between centripetal and centrifugal forces, Conrad creates a great polyphonic novel.

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Ⅰ. Introduction
  1. Centripetal forces in Nostromo
  2. Centrifugal forces against Gould
 Ⅲ.
  1. Nostromo: A centripetal figure
  2. Nostromo’s ideological change
 Ⅳ. Polyphony and Heteroglossia in Nostromo
 Ⅴ. Conclusion
 Works Cited
 ABSTRACT

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저자

• Woo-Hak Lee [ Kon-kuk University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810