Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (eBook, PDF)

A Casebook
Redaktion: Moore, Gene M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195303698
• Artikelnr.: 54563363

Autorenporträt

Gene M. Moore is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Joseph Conrad: An Outpost of Progress
2: Frank Brantlinger: Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent
3: Arthur Conan Doyle: From The Crime of the Congo
4: G.F.W. Hope: Joseph Conrad's First Cruise in the Nellie
5: Zdzialaw Najder: To the End of the Night
6: Marion Michael and Wilkes Berry: The Typescript of 'The Heart of Darkness'
7: Max Beerbohm: The Feast, by J
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8: Ian Watt: Conrad's Impressionism
9: Linda Costanzo Cahir: Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now
10: Nina Pelikan Straus: The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
11: Rino Zhuwarara: Heart of Darkness Revisited: The African Response
12: David Denby: Jungle Fever
13: Cyril Clemens: A Chat with Joseph Conrad
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