Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 410 g
A Casebook
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 410 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-515996-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of literature and literary criticism
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
- 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*s*ph C*nr*d
- 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
- Suggested Reading
