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Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness / D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke.

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English
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Physical Description:
xiv, 145 pages ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Summary:
  • Joseph Conrad's novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilization, race, love and heroism. This classic tale transcends the boundaries of time and place and has inspired famous film and television adaptations emphasising the cultural significance and continued relevance of the book.
  • This guide to Conrad's captivating novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Heart of Darkness, a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present, a selection of new essays and reprinted critical essays on Heart of Darkness, by Ian Watt, Linda Dryden, Ruth Nadelhaft, J. Hillis Miller and Peter Brooks, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section, cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism, suggestion for further reading.
Contents:
  • 1 Text and contexts 1
  • Literary contexts 8
  • Cultural context 13
  • Historical context 14
  • The text 17
  • 2 Critical history 49
  • Early responses 51
  • Post-colonial criticism 60
  • 3 Critical readings 71
  • / Ian Watt 'Heart of Darkness and Nineteenth-Century Thought' (1978) 73
  • / Linda Dryden 'The Vexed Question of Humanity in Heart of Darkness: A Historicist Reading' (2007) 83
  • / Ruth Nadelhaft 'A Feminist Perspective on Heart of Darkness' (2007) 92
  • / J. Hillis Miller 'Heart of Darkness Revisited' (1990) 101
  • / Peter Brooks 'An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness' (1984) 113
  • 4 Adaptations 129.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-142) and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780415357753
  • 0415357756
  • 9780415357760
  • 0415357764
  • 9780203003787
  • 0203003780
OCLC:
123377232

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