The phrase "heart of darkness" has become familiar shorthand for conjuring an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad's novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race, and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural history. In this edition, Conrad's story is shown to reveal important truths not only about Europe and Africa a century ago, but also about the historical forces that shape the world we live in now.
Featuring the texts of both Heart of Darkness and Conrad's autobiographical "Congo Diary" along with more than 200 annotations, this book enables readers to appreciate the connections between Conrad's writing and its historical context. Introductory essays explain Conrad's unique position as a chronicler of history, provide critical background information on how Europeans partitioned Africa and created the Congo Free State, and describe how the ivory and rubber trades brutalized the natives. Readers will learn how Conrad contributed to European awareness of the atrocities committed, and they will discover how the story's literary qualities form an essential part of its historical meaning. The numerous illustrations and maps depicting the historical Congo Free State provide a visual element to the story of Heart of Darkness--a fictionalized tale that can be interpreted as history and that can help us interpret today's postcolonial, globalized world.
The phrase "heart of darkness" has become a term commonly used to conjure an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad's novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural history. In this edition, Conrad's story is shown to reveal important truths not only about Europe and Africa a century ago, but also about the historical forces that shape the world we live in now.
Featuring the texts of both Heart of Darkness and Conrad's autobiographical Congo Diary along with more than 200 annotations, this book enables readers to appreciate the connections between Conrad's writing and its historical context. Introductory essays explain how Conrad was uniquely positioned to chronicle history, provide critical background information on how Europeans partitioned Africa and created the Congo Free State, and describe how the ivory and rubber trades brutalized the natives. Readers will learn how Conrad contributed to European awareness of the atrocities committed and understand how the story's literary qualities form an essential part of its historical meaning. The numerous illustrations and maps depicting the historical Congo Free State provide a visual element to the story of Heart of Darkness--a fictionalized tale that can be interpreted as history and that can help us interpret today's postcolonial, globalized world.
Автор: Firchow Peter Edgerly Название: Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad`s Heart of Darkness ISBN: 081319198X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813191980 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 43680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Envisioning Africa responds in detail to negative interpretations of the novel Heart of Darkness by revealing what they distort, misconstrue, or fail to take into account.
Автор: O. Bohlmann Название: Conrad`s Existentialism ISBN: 0333436199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333436196 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 139750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study of the philosophical aspects of Conrad`s novels offers evidence that the works exhibit a powerful existential strain, foreshadowing many central concerns of 20th-century modernism. The author reveals that Conrad`s fiction is replete with ideas from Sartre, Camus and Nietzsche.
Автор: Paris Название: Conrad`s Charlie Marlow ISBN: 1403969892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403969897 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study argues that Conrad portrays Marlow and his relationships with a psychological depth that is unsurpassed in literature. In Youth , Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , he is a continuously-evolving character whose thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are expressions of his personality and experience.
Автор: Francis Название: Culture and Commerce in Conrad`s Asian Fiction ISBN: 1107093988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107093980 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Andrew Francis`s Culture and Commerce in Conrad`s Asian Fiction is the first book-length study of commerce in Conrad`s work. It reveals not only the complex connections between culture and commerce in Conrad`s Asian fiction but also how he employed commerce in characterization, moral contexts, and his depiction of relations at a point of advanced European imperialism.
Автор: Hampson Название: Conrad`s Secrets ISBN: 0230507832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230507838 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 93160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Conrad`s Secrets explores a range of knowledges which would have been familiar to Conrad and his original readers. Drawing on research into trade, policing, sexual and financial scandals, changing theories of trauma and contemporary war-crimes, the book provides contexts for Conrad`s fictions and produces original readings of his work.
Автор: Clarke, Clare Название: Image of africa: racism in conrad`s heart of darkness ISBN: 1912127776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912127771 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe`s essay on Joseph Conrad`s Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the "canon", Achebe says, does not mean we should not question it closely or criticize its author.
Автор: Winner Anthony Название: Culture and Irony: Studies in Joseph Conrad`s Major Novels ISBN: 0813929466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813929460 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 28430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Conrad's major novels-Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes-tell of illusions and betrayals, dreams and lies. Ambiguity, contradiction, and irony so dominate the narratives that the more closely one reads, the more difficult it becomes to know what is real or what is true. While Conrad's impressionism teaches one to see, his irony casts doubt on the meaning of what one has seen. Facts have little value, yet beliefs are futile or hollow because they ignore facts. Irony turns every certainty into uncertainty. Even the cultural values upon which the irony seems to rest are often mocked. This perplexity, which is the binding force of Conrad's art, is thoroughly examined in Culture and Irony.
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