Authors: Joseph Conrad, Vince Passaro (Afterword), Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN-13: 9780451531032, ISBN-10: 0451531035
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: August 2008
Edition: Reprint
Most readers know Joseph Conrad for creating Marlow's harrowing journey through the African Congo in Heart of Darkness. Conrad was adept at capturing the physical and cultural experiences he gleaned from 15 years at sea, but he also wrote political thrillers, essays, and plays based on his own short stories. His best works tend to be brief, but pack in a remarkable perspicacity about humanity's deepest faults.
Two of Conrad's BEST-KNOWN worksin a single volume
In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century.
About the Series | ||
About This Volume | ||
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts | 3 | |
The Complete Text | 17 | |
A Critical History of Heart of Darkness | 99 | |
Reader-Response Criticism and Heart of Darkness | 115 | |
A Reader-Response Perspective: Heart of Darkness and the Politics of Displacement | 131 | |
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness | 148 | |
A Feminist and Gender Perspective: "Too Beautiful Altogether": Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness | 169 | |
Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness | 185 | |
A Deconstructive Perspective: Heart of Darkness Revisited | 206 | |
The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness | 221 | |
A New Historicist Perspective: Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness | 239 | |
Cultural Criticism and Heart of Darkness | 258 | |
A Cultural Perspective: Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism? | 277 | |
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms | 299 | |
About the Contributors | 313 |