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9780873529037

Approaches to Teaching Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer

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  • ISBN13:

    9780873529037

  • ISBN10:

    0873529030

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-12-01
  • Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer
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Table of Contents

Preface to the Series ix
Preface to the Volume xi
PART ONE: MATERIALS
Hunt Hawkins
Editions
``Heart of Darkness''
3(1)
``The Secret Sharer''
4(1)
Reference Works
Bibliographies
5(1)
Biographical Sources
5(1)
Readings for Students and Teachers
Background Studies
6(2)
Critical Commentary
8(3)
Audiovisual Aids
The Stories (Film Adaptations)
11(2)
The Author
13(4)
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Introduction
17(5)
Brian W. Shaffer
Teaching Social Contexts and Literary Issues
Conrad, Slavery, and the African Ivory Trade in the 1890s
22(9)
Ray Stevens
Conrad and the Adventure Tradition
31(9)
Andrea White
Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts for Teaching ``Heart of Darkness''
40(8)
John A. McClure
Conrad and Professionalism
48(6)
Jeffrey J. Williams
Teaching ``Heart of Darkness'' after New Historicism
54(7)
Mark A. Eaton
Exploring Characterization in ``Heart of Darkness''
61(6)
Avrom Fleishman
The Role of Marlow's Nellie Audience in ``Heart of Darkness''
67(7)
Brian W. Shaffer
``He Was Not a Bit like Me, Really'': Narrators and Audiences in ``The Secret Sharer''
74(5)
Brian Richardson
Creating a Second Self: Transference as Narrative Form in ``The Secret Sharer''
79(11)
Daniel Schwarz
Teaching the Controversies
``Heart of Darkness'' and Others
90(7)
Marianne DeKoven
Women's Caring and Men's Secret Sharing: Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in ``Heart of Darkness'' and ``The Secret Sharer''
97(7)
Carola M. Kaplan
Why I Teach Conrad and Achebe
104(7)
Padmini Mongia
Conrad and the N Word: Responding to the Sensitivities and Politics of the Contemporary Classroom
111(9)
Joseph F. Militello
A Choice of Nightmares: Reading ``Heart of Darkness'' through Apocalypse Now
120(6)
Margot Norris
Specific Courses
Teaching ``The Secret Sharer'' at the United States Naval Academy
126(7)
Mark D. Larabee
Teaching ``Heart of Darkness'' in a Western Civilization or Humanities Core Course
133(7)
William M. Hagen
Teaching ``Heart of Darkness'' in a Seminar on Modernism and Postmodernism
140(6)
Philip M. Weinstein
Teaching ``Heart of Darkness'' across Disciplinary Boundary Lines
146(6)
Barry Stampfl
Teaching ``Heart of Darkness'' in a Creative Writing Class
152(6)
Janet Burroway
Luminous Spaces: Teaching ``Heart of Darkness'' through Film
158(9)
Mark Osteen
Notes on Contributors 167(4)
Survey Participants 171(2)
Works Cited 173(18)
Index 191

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