Heart of darkness

Heart of darkness

Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924

Large print - 2012

Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the ivory traders' cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, a man who has used savagery to obtain semi-divine power over the natives. While Marlow tries to get Kurtz back down the river, Kurtz tries to justify his actions and motions, asserting that he has seen into the very heart of things.

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Subjects
Europeans > Africa > Fiction.
Trading posts > Fiction.
Degeneration > Fiction.
Imperialism > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Large type books.
Africa > Fiction.
Published
Belmont, CA : Large Print Bookshelf [2012]
Language
English
Main Author
Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924 (-)
Edition
Large print edition
Item Description
"Originally published in 1902"--Title page.
Physical Description
148 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781449504748
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Undergraduate courses designed to introduce students to the study of literature or, more particularly, to the study of critical approaches to fiction, would find Murfin's collection of essays on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness a useful text. The essays, written by five respected critics (including Federick R. Karl) specifically for this collection, are designed to model each of five current critical schools: the psychoanalytic, reader-response, feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist perspectives. Murfin introduces the collection with a history of 20th-century criticism that beginners will find helpful, and prefaces each of the essays with his own commentary on the techniques of the critical approach being illustrated. The volume also includes the text of Conrad's masterpiece with a detailed review of the biographical and historical context of the story, and a glossary of key terms used in the literature of contemporary literary theory and criticism. Murfin (Univeristy of Miami) is also the editor of Conrad Revisited: Essays for the Eighties (1985), and the author of books on Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence. P. D. O'Connor Aquinas College

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The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo as told by Marlow's is an adventure story that examines the intent and effects of colonization. It remains one of the most controversial and profound writings of world literature. Excerpted from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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