Contributor
Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.
ImprintIpswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]
Imprint2019
Descriptionxxvii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Heart of darkness and me / John G. Peters -- Biography of Joseph Conrad / Robert C. Evans -- Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and Sidney Hinde's The fall of the Congo Arabs / Robert C. Evans -- Conrad's Heart of darkness: an overview of criticism: 1899-2015 / Robert C. Evans -- Ethics and horror in Heart of darkness / Amar Acheraļou -- "Carrying the fire": metaphors of destruction and hope in the apocalyptic visions of Conrad and McCarthy / Joseph R. Lease -- "The grey high cube of iron": Conrad's manuscript shadow text of Heart of darkness / David Mulry -- Heart of darkness: continuing problems / Cedric Watts -- Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and Herbert Ward's Five years with the Congo cannibals / Robert C. Evans -- The symbiotic relation between colonizer and colonized: a contrapuntal reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness / Pei-Wen Clio Kao -- Chart of darkness: cognitive mapping in Marlow's quest for Kurtz / Nicolas Tredell -- To make you hear and see: the aural and visual in Heart of darkness / Nicolas Tredell -- The parable of Kurtzland: Conrad's Heart of darkness as a metaphysical dystopia / Guido Laino -- Problems of closure in Heart of darkness and Apocalypse now / Gene M. Moore -- Nicholas Roeg's filmed Heart of darkness: a survey of reviews / Yolanda York -- Polish literary references in Heart of darkness and The secret agent / Jean M. Szczypien -- Images from the Congo region from the time of Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness / Herbert Ward, Victor Perard, and W.B. Davis.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291) and index.
Note:Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is perhaps the most influential novel by one of the twentieth century's most esteemed and influential novelists. Valued for its themes as well as for its innovative literary methods, this book has not only inspired great admiration but has also provoked, more recently, heated controversy. Usually read as an attack on the brutalities of European colonialism, the work is sometimes now read as a colonialist project in its own right. This volume explores numerous dimensions of Conrad's book, looking at it in various historical, literary, and cultural contexts and examining both its artistry and its themes.
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