Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A CasebookGene M. Moore Oxford University Press, 2010 M04 10 - 288 páginas Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's fictional account of a journey up the Congo river in 1890, raises important questions about colonialism and narrative theory. This casebook contains materials relevant to a deeper understanding of the origins and reception of this controversial text, including Conrad's own story "An Outpost of Progress," together with a little-known memoir by one of Conrad's oldest English friends, a brief history of the Congo Free State by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a parody of Conrad by Max Beerbohm. A wide range of theoretical approaches are also represented, examining Conrad's text in terms of cultural, historical, textual, stylistic, narratological, post-colonial, feminist, and reader-response criticism. The volume concludes with an interview in which Conrad compares his adventures on the Congo with Mark Twain's experiences as a Mississippi pilot. |
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... Makola's “Come along, Mr. Kayerts. He is dead” eerily foreshadows the announcement that “Mistah Kurtz—he dead.” “An Outpost of Progress” was Conrad's own favorite among all his stories, and although he spoke of it as “the lightest part ...
... Makola's “Come along, Mr. Kayerts. He is dead” eerily foreshadows the announcement that “Mistah Kurtz—he dead.” “An Outpost of Progress” was Conrad's own favorite among all his stories, and although he spoke of it as “the lightest part ...
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... Makola, and it stuck to him through all his wanderings about the country. He spoke English and French with a warbling accent, wrote a beautiful hand, understood bookkeeping, and cherished in his innermost heart the worship of evil ...
... Makola, and it stuck to him through all his wanderings about the country. He spoke English and French with a warbling accent, wrote a beautiful hand, understood bookkeeping, and cherished in his innermost heart the worship of evil ...
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... Makola had watched the energetic artist die of fever in the just finished house with his usual kind of “I told you so” indifference. Then, for a time, he dwelt alone with his family, his account books, and the Evil Spirit that rules the ...
... Makola had watched the energetic artist die of fever in the just finished house with his usual kind of “I told you so” indifference. Then, for a time, he dwelt alone with his family, his account books, and the Evil Spirit that rules the ...
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... Makola over an elephant tusk. Kayerts sat on his chair and looked down on the proceedings, understanding nothing. He stared at them with his round blue eyes, called out to Carlier, “Here, look! look at that fellow there—and that other ...
... Makola over an elephant tusk. Kayerts sat on his chair and looked down on the proceedings, understanding nothing. He stared at them with his round blue eyes, called out to Carlier, “Here, look! look at that fellow there—and that other ...
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... Makola! Take that herd over to the fetish” (the storehouse was in every station called the fetish, perhaps because of the spirit of civilisation it contained) “and give them up some of the rubbish you keep there. I'd rather see it full ...
... Makola! Take that herd over to the fetish” (the storehouse was in every station called the fetish, perhaps because of the spirit of civilisation it contained) “and give them up some of the rubbish you keep there. I'd rather see it full ...
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The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent | 43 |
From The Crime of the Congo | 89 |
Joseph Conrads First Cruise in the Nellie | 111 |
To the End of the Night | 125 |
The Typescript of The Heart of Darkness | 153 |
The Feast by Jsph Cnrd | 165 |
Conrads Impressionism | 169 |
Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now | 183 |
The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrads Heart of Darkness | 197 |
The African Response | 219 |
Jungle Fever | 243 |
A Chat with Joseph Conrad | 267 |
Suggested Reading | 277 |
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