Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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Gene M. Moore
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.
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Author
Gene M. Moore
Pages
279
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published Date
2004
ISBN
0195159969 9780195159967
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"I attempted to read the original when I was too dumb to sit through. In high school I had a big Doors/Jim Morrison phase with put me onto Apocalypse Now and HOD. I am probably still too dumb to read the original, so I thought I would try this graphic-novelized version instead when I saw it at the library. The artwork is stark and interesting and the story must do a pretty good job of paring down the original.<br/><br/>I might go take a look at the novel again. But probably not."
Andrew Greene