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Heart of darkness : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives / Joseph Conrad ; edited by Ross C. Murfin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Case studies in contemporary criticismPublisher: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Third editionDescription: xi, 383 pages illustrations 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780312457532
  • 0312457537
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.912 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6005.O4
Contents:
Pt. One 'Heart of darkness': the complete text -- Introduction: Biographical and historical contexts -- The complete text -- pt. Two 'Heart of darkness' in cultural context -- Cultural documents and illustrations -- Maps of Africa -- Photographs of African women -- Leopold II, King of Belgium -- Documenting abuse in the Congo Free State -- 'Heart of darkness' from a multi-media perspective -- pt. Three 'Heart of darkness': a case study in contemporary criticism -- A critical history of 'Heart of darkness' -- Feminist and gender criticism and 'Heart of darkness' -- A feminist and gender perspective: "Too beautiful altogether": ideologies of gender and empire in 'Heart of darkness' -- Decontruction and 'Heart of darkness' -- A deconstuctive perspective: 'Heart of darkness' revisisted -- The new historicism and 'Heart of darkness' -- A new historicist perspective: Preserving and keeping order by killing time in 'Heart of darkness' -- Postcolonial criticism and 'Heart of darkness' -- A postcolonial critical perspective" 'Heart of darkness': anit-imperlialism, racism or impressionism? -- Combining postcolonial, feminist and gender criticism with queer theory -- The women do not travel: gender, difference and incommensurability in Conrad's 'Heart of darkness' -- Combining the new historicism and postcolonial criticism with psychoanalytic criticism -- Cultural psychosis on the frontier: the work of the darkness in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of darkness'.
Summary: "Part One of this volume reprints the text of 'Heart of darkness' from the 1921 Heinemann edition of Conrad's 'Collected works' - the latest version of the text that Conrad approved. Part Two includes documents and illustrations providing cultural contexts for 'Heart of darkness'. Part Three features a critical history of the novella, plus six contemporary essays representing deconstruction; feminist, gender, and queer theory; and a new historicist, post-colonial, and psychoanalytic approaches to Conrad's most famous tale."--Page vii.
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Pt. One 'Heart of darkness': the complete text -- Introduction: Biographical and historical contexts -- The complete text -- pt. Two 'Heart of darkness' in cultural context -- Cultural documents and illustrations -- Maps of Africa -- Photographs of African women -- Leopold II, King of Belgium -- Documenting abuse in the Congo Free State -- 'Heart of darkness' from a multi-media perspective -- pt. Three 'Heart of darkness': a case study in contemporary criticism -- A critical history of 'Heart of darkness' -- Feminist and gender criticism and 'Heart of darkness' -- A feminist and gender perspective: "Too beautiful altogether": ideologies of gender and empire in 'Heart of darkness' -- Decontruction and 'Heart of darkness' -- A deconstuctive perspective: 'Heart of darkness' revisisted -- The new historicism and 'Heart of darkness' -- A new historicist perspective: Preserving and keeping order by killing time in 'Heart of darkness' -- Postcolonial criticism and 'Heart of darkness' -- A postcolonial critical perspective" 'Heart of darkness': anit-imperlialism, racism or impressionism? -- Combining postcolonial, feminist and gender criticism with queer theory -- The women do not travel: gender, difference and incommensurability in Conrad's 'Heart of darkness' -- Combining the new historicism and postcolonial criticism with psychoanalytic criticism -- Cultural psychosis on the frontier: the work of the darkness in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of darkness'.

"Part One of this volume reprints the text of 'Heart of darkness' from the 1921 Heinemann edition of Conrad's 'Collected works' - the latest version of the text that Conrad approved. Part Two includes documents and illustrations providing cultural contexts for 'Heart of darkness'. Part Three features a critical history of the novella, plus six contemporary essays representing deconstruction; feminist, gender, and queer theory; and a new historicist, post-colonial, and psychoanalytic approaches to Conrad's most famous tale."--Page vii.