Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness : a casebook
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness : a casebook
(Casebooks in criticism)
Oxford University Press, 2004
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-279)
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Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780195159950
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. An Outpost of Progress
- 2. Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent
- 3. From The Crime of the Congo
- 4. Joseph Conrad's First Cruise in the Nellie
- 5. To the End of the Night
- 6. The Typescript of 'The Heart of Darkness'
- 7. The Feast, by J*s*ph C*nr*d
- 8. Conrad's Impressionism
- 9. Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now
- 10. The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- 11. Heart of Darkness Revisited: The African Response
- 12. Jungle Fever
- 13. A Chat with Joseph Conrad
- Suggested Reading
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780195159967
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. An Outpost of Progress
- 2. Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent
- 3. From The Crime of the Congo
- 4. Joseph Conrad's First Cruise in the Nellie
- 5. To the End of the Night
- 6. The Typescript of 'The Heart of Darkness'
- 7. The Feast, by J*s*ph C*nr*d
- 8. Conrad's Impressionism
- 9. Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now
- 10. The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- 11. Heart of Darkness Revisited: The African Response
- 12. Jungle Fever
- 13. A Chat with Joseph Conrad
- Suggested Reading
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