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9780195159967

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness A Casebook

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195159967

  • ISBN10:

    0195159969

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-03-11
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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 alsorepresented, 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 aMississippi pilot.

Author Biography


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

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(14)
GENE M. MOORE
An Outpost of Progress 17(26)
JOSEPH CONRAD
Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent 43(46)
PATRICK BRANTLINGER
From The Crime of the Congo 89(22)
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Joseph Conrad's First Cruise in the Nellie 111(14)
G.F.W. HOPF.
To the End of the Night 125(28)
ZDZISLAW NAIDER
The Typescript of "The Heart of Darkness" 153(12)
MARION MICHAEL AND WILKES BERRY
The Feast, by J*s*ph C*nr*d 165(4)
MAX BEERBOHM
Conrad's Impressionism 169(14)
IAN WATT
Narratological Parallels in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now 183(14)
LINDA COSTANZO CAHIR
The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing in Conrad's Heart of Darkness 197(22)
NINA PELIKAN STRAUS
Heart of Darkness Revisited: The African Response 219(24)
RINO ZHUWARARA
Jungle Fever 243(24)
DAVID DENBY
A Chat with Joseph Conrad 267(10)
CYRIL CLEMENS
Suggested Reading 277

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