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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... never made large claims for Heart of Darkness. Accepting William Blackwood's invitation to contribute to the thousandth issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, he expressed reservations about whether the subject he proposed to treat ...
... never made large claims for Heart of Darkness. Accepting William Blackwood's invitation to contribute to the thousandth issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, he expressed reservations about whether the subject he proposed to treat ...
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... never finished; when the project ran over budget and was scrapped, Welles made Citizen Kane instead. Conrad's academic reputation can be dated from 1948, when F. R. Leavis, the most influential British critic of his generation, argued ...
... never finished; when the project ran over budget and was scrapped, Welles made Citizen Kane instead. Conrad's academic reputation can be dated from 1948, when F. R. Leavis, the most influential British critic of his generation, argued ...
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... never be free from errors and editorial arbitrations. Given Conrad's fame and the amount of attention paid to his distinctive style, it seems odd that he should have received so few tributes in the form of parodies—far fewer, for ...
... never be free from errors and editorial arbitrations. Given Conrad's fame and the amount of attention paid to his distinctive style, it seems odd that he should have received so few tributes in the form of parodies—far fewer, for ...
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... never be dropped from the reading lists. Achebe's and [Edward] Said's anguish only confirms his centrality to the modern age.” English was Conrad's third language, and he never managed to 12 Gene M. Moore.
... never be dropped from the reading lists. Achebe's and [Edward] Said's anguish only confirms his centrality to the modern age.” English was Conrad's third language, and he never managed to 12 Gene M. Moore.
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A Casebook Gene M. Moore. English was Conrad's third language, and he never managed to speak it without a thick accent that at times made him incomprehensible even to his private secretary. When he was invited to speak in New York in May ...
A Casebook Gene M. Moore. English was Conrad's third language, and he never managed to speak it without a thick accent that at times made him incomprehensible even to his private secretary. When he was invited to speak in New York in May ...
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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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