complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives /
Joseph Conrad ; edited by Ross C. Murfin.
2nd ed.
Boston :
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,
c1996.
x, 315 p. ;
22 cm.
Case studies in contemporary criticism
Gift from Joanne Ford.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts -- The Complete Text -- A Critical History of Heart of Darkness -- Reader-Response Criticism and Heart of Darkness. A Reader-Response Perspective: Heart of Darkness and the Politics of Displacement / Peter J. Rabinowitz -- 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 / Johanna M. Smith -- Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness. A Deconstructive Perspective: Heart of Darkness Revisited / J. Hillis Miller -- The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness. A New Historicist Perspective: Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness / Brook Thomas -- Cultural Criticism and Heart of Darkness. A Cultural Perspective: Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?
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Along with an authoritative text of Heart of Darkness, this volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. The book also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms.
Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924., Heart of darkness.
Degeneration, Fiction.
Europeans-- Africa, Fiction.
Imperialism, Fiction.
Psychological fiction, English-- History and criticism.