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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... moral to Heart of Darkness, it lies perhaps in these words, with which Marlow breaks the silence of a little yacht becalmed on the Thames estuary awaiting the turn of the tide. Marlow then proceeds to tell the entire story of Heart of ...
... moral to Heart of Darkness, it lies perhaps in these words, with which Marlow breaks the silence of a little yacht becalmed on the Thames estuary awaiting the turn of the tide. Marlow then proceeds to tell the entire story of Heart of ...
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... moral or mythic introspection. In Conrad the Novelist (1958), Albert J. Guerard called the novella “Conrad's longest journey into self” (33), and subsequent generations of critics have extended this line of inquiry. In the same period ...
... moral or mythic introspection. In Conrad the Novelist (1958), Albert J. Guerard called the novella “Conrad's longest journey into self” (33), and subsequent generations of critics have extended this line of inquiry. In the same period ...
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... moral discomforts of a self-absorbed adventurer. His evidence restored Africa to the map of Conrad studies, and outlawed the comfortable notion that “Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz” (Hamner ...
... moral discomforts of a self-absorbed adventurer. His evidence restored Africa to the map of Conrad studies, and outlawed the comfortable notion that “Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz” (Hamner ...
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... morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive nature and primitive man, brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart. To the sentiment of being alone of one's ...
... morals, in the power of its police and of its opinion. But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery, with primitive nature and primitive man, brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart. To the sentiment of being alone of one's ...
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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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