Joseph Conrad\'s Heart of Darkness: A Casebook torrent

Joseph Conrad\'s Heart of Darkness: A Casebook
Oxford University Press, USA | March 11, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0195159969 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

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.