Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

A Casebook. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 288 Seiten
ISBN 0195159969
EAN 9780195159967
Veröffentlicht März 2004
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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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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Gene M. Moore is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Amsterdam.

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