With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of contemporary philosophical and critical responses to the text. Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought includes the first publication in English of philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's essay, 'The Horror of the West', described by J. Hillis Miller as 'a major essay on Conrad's novel, one of the…mehr
With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of contemporary philosophical and critical responses to the text. Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought includes the first publication in English of philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's essay, 'The Horror of the West', described by J. Hillis Miller as 'a major essay on Conrad's novel, one of the best ever written'. In the company of Lacoue-Labarthe, leading scholars explore new readings of Conrad's text from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, narratological and postcolonial approaches. Drawing on the very latest insights of contemporary thought, this is an essential study of one of the most important literary texts of the 20th century.
Nidesh Lawtoo is Lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the author of The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious (2013).
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Acknowledgements Preface Anne Luyat Introduction: 'An Emotion of Thought' Nidesh Lawtoo Prologue: Revisiting 'Heart of Darkness Revisited' (in the Company of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe) J. Hillis Miller Part I: Mythic Darkness 1. Heart of Darkness Revisited J. Hillis Miller 2. Modernism Myth and Heart of Darkness Michael Bell 3. Civilization and its Darkness Jonathan Dollimore Part II: Conrad avec Lacoue-Labarthe 4. A Frame for 'The Horror of the West Nidesh Lawtoo 5. The Horror of the West Philippe Lacou-Labarthe 6. Philippe's Lessons of Darkness François Warin Part III: The Affect of Ideology 7. "La lettre Lacan Lacoue-Labarthe: Heart of Darkness redux Stephen Ross 8.The Voice of Darkness Claude Maissonat 9. The Horror of Trauma: Mourning or melancholia in Heart of Darkness Beth S. Ash Part IV: The Echo of the Horror 10. Conrad's Dionysian Elegy Henry Staten 11. Sounding the Hollow Heart of the West: X-Rays and the technique de la mort Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère 12. The Horror of Mimesis: Echoing Lacoue-Labarthe Nidesh Lawtoo Postface: A talk with Avital Ronell (about Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe) Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgements Preface Anne Luyat Introduction: 'An Emotion of Thought' Nidesh Lawtoo Prologue: Revisiting 'Heart of Darkness Revisited' (in the Company of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe) J. Hillis Miller Part I: Mythic Darkness 1. Heart of Darkness Revisited J. Hillis Miller 2. Modernism Myth and Heart of Darkness Michael Bell 3. Civilization and its Darkness Jonathan Dollimore Part II: Conrad avec Lacoue-Labarthe 4. A Frame for 'The Horror of the West Nidesh Lawtoo 5. The Horror of the West Philippe Lacou-Labarthe 6. Philippe's Lessons of Darkness François Warin Part III: The Affect of Ideology 7. "La lettre Lacan Lacoue-Labarthe: Heart of Darkness redux Stephen Ross 8.The Voice of Darkness Claude Maissonat 9. The Horror of Trauma: Mourning or melancholia in Heart of Darkness Beth S. Ash Part IV: The Echo of the Horror 10. Conrad's Dionysian Elegy Henry Staten 11. Sounding the Hollow Heart of the West: X-Rays and the technique de la mort Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère 12. The Horror of Mimesis: Echoing Lacoue-Labarthe Nidesh Lawtoo Postface: A talk with Avital Ronell (about Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe) Bibliography Index.
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