Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A CasebookGene M. Moore Oxford University Press, 2010 M04 10 - 145 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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... humanity of black people is called in question” (Achebe, in Hamner, 124–26). Achebe cited examples of Conrad's (or Marlow's) callous and demeaning portrayal of African characters whose very real sufferings far outweighed the moral ...
... humanity of black people is called in question” (Achebe, in Hamner, 124–26). Achebe cited examples of Conrad's (or Marlow's) callous and demeaning portrayal of African characters whose very real sufferings far outweighed the moral ...
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... human conscience” (“Geography” 17), yet fail to deplore a prejudice that was as yet nameless in both English and French. Of course the value of Achebe's work does not depend on such details; in taking Conrad as a symbol of the “best ...
... human conscience” (“Geography” 17), yet fail to deplore a prejudice that was as yet nameless in both English and French. Of course the value of Achebe's work does not depend on such details; in taking Conrad as a symbol of the “best ...
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... of what we would now call the human-rights abuses perpetrated by the agents of Western progress and civilization. The ivory-grabbing witnessed by Conrad in 1890 had been followed by the rubber boom, when it 8 Gene M. Moore.
... of what we would now call the human-rights abuses perpetrated by the agents of Western progress and civilization. The ivory-grabbing witnessed by Conrad in 1890 had been followed by the rubber boom, when it 8 Gene M. Moore.
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... Human Progress. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Guerard, Albert J. Conrad the Novelist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958. Hamner, Robert, ed. Joseph Conrad: Third World Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: Three ...
... Human Progress. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Guerard, Albert J. Conrad the Novelist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958. Hamner, Robert, ed. Joseph Conrad: Third World Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: Three ...
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Contenido
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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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