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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... literary friends, but it was hardly a popular success. In 1902, when Blackwood published the story together with “Youth” and “The End of the Tether,” Conrad titled the volume Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories, and of the three ...
... literary friends, but it was hardly a popular success. In 1902, when Blackwood published the story together with “Youth” and “The End of the Tether,” Conrad titled the volume Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories, and of the three ...
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... literary criticism. According to Leavis, only four English authors had achieved such “greatness”: two women (Jane Austen and George Eliot) and two immigrants (Henry James and Conrad). By the 1950s psychological criticism was dominant in ...
... literary criticism. According to Leavis, only four English authors had achieved such “greatness”: two women (Jane Austen and George Eliot) and two immigrants (Henry James and Conrad). By the 1950s psychological criticism was dominant in ...
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... literary criticism seems to swing (like Poe's fatal pendulum) between formal and cultural-historical approaches every twenty years or so, as for example recently from Deconstructionism to New Historicism, although both form and content ...
... literary criticism seems to swing (like Poe's fatal pendulum) between formal and cultural-historical approaches every twenty years or so, as for example recently from Deconstructionism to New Historicism, although both form and content ...
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... literary works are always in some sense the result of a social process of textual production that can never be free from errors and editorial arbitrations. Given Conrad's fame and the amount of attention paid to his distinctive style ...
... literary works are always in some sense the result of a social process of textual production that can never be free from errors and editorial arbitrations. Given Conrad's fame and the amount of attention paid to his distinctive style ...
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... literary critics, the idea of “horror” has had a comparable appeal for filmmakers. At least ten film or television adaptations of Heart of Darkness have been made in the course of the last half-century, including parodies and spoofs as ...
... literary critics, the idea of “horror” has had a comparable appeal for filmmakers. At least ten film or television adaptations of Heart of Darkness have been made in the course of the last half-century, including parodies and spoofs as ...
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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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