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The Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer » (Reprint)

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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

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Author Biography: Joseph Conrad

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.

Book Synopsis

Two of Conrad's BEST-KNOWN works—in 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.

Table of Contents

About the Series
About This Volume
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts3
The Complete Text17
A Critical History of Heart of Darkness99
Reader-Response Criticism and Heart of Darkness115
A Reader-Response Perspective: Heart of Darkness and the Politics of Displacement131
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness148
A Feminist and Gender Perspective: "Too Beautiful Altogether": Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness169
Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness185
A Deconstructive Perspective: Heart of Darkness Revisited206
The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness221
A New Historicist Perspective: Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness239
Cultural Criticism and Heart of Darkness258
A Cultural Perspective: Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?277
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms299
About the Contributors313

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