Heart of darkness : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives
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Heart of darkness : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives
(Case studies in contemporary criticism)
Bedford/St. Martin's , Published and distributed outside North America by Palgrave Macmillan, c2011
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
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: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 9780230333451
Description
This popular case-study of Conrad's classic short novel reprints an authoritative text together with essays written from a range of contemporary critical perspectives. In this third edition, the section of cultural documents and illustrations is entirely new, as are two recent exemplary critical essays by Gabrielle McIntire and Tony C. Brown.
Table of Contents
About the Series About this Volume Part One: Heart of Darkness: The Complete Text Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts The Complete Text Part Two: Heart of Darkness in Cultural Context Contextual Documents and Illustrations Part Three: Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism A Critical History of Heart of Darkness Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness Postcolonial Criticism and Heart of Darkness Combining Postcolonial, Feminist, and Gender Criticism with Queer Theory Combining the New Historicism and Postcolonial Criticism with Psychoanalytic Criticism Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
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: Bedford/St. Martin's ISBN 9780312457532
Description
Complete with documents putting this classic novel into historical context and critical essays that take several contemporary critical perspectives, this version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness with a variety of suppporting resources.
Table of Contents
Part One: Heart of Darkness: The Complete Text
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text *Part Two: Heart of Darkness in Cultural Context
Contextual Documents and Illustrations
Part Three: Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Heart of Darkness
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness
JOHANNA M. SMITH, "Too Beautiful Altogether": Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness
Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness
J. HILLIS MILLER, Heart of Darkness Revisited
The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness
BROOK THOMAS, Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness
Postcolonial Criticism and Heart of Darkness
PATRICK BRANTLINGER, Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?
*Combining Postcolonial, Feminist, and Gender Criticism with Queer Theory
*GABRELLE McINTIRE, The Women Do Not Travel: Gender, Difference, and Incommensurability in Conrad's Heart of Darkness *Combining the New Historicism and Postcolonial Criticism with Psychoanalytic Criticism
*TONY C. BROWN, Cultural Psychosis on the Frontier: The Work of the Darkness in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms *New
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