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The Secret Sharer
Title: The Secret Sharer
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1473 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Secret Sharer
The works of James Phelan (Reading Secrets) and Michael Levenson (Secret History in ‘The Secret Sharer’) both take a look at Joseph Conrad’s short story, “The Secret Sharer”, from two different critical perspectives. Phelan discusses “The Secret Sharer” from the reader-response perspective, and Levenson from the new historicism perspective. It is hard to do direct comparisons on their work because they look at the story from totally opposing views. Phelan and reader-response critics derive …showed first 75 words of 1473 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1473 total…where he was trying to take us in out way of thinking. Also, the fact that he seemed to discuss the author and his techniques as having a greater effect on our perception of the story then the reader seemed to clash with the approach of reader-response at times. Due to these reasons I am led to feel that Levenson was much more successful in getting his message across in his essay then Phelan was.
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