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Heart of darkness : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
Title
Heart of darkness : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism / Joseph Conrad ; edited by Robert Kimbrough.
ISBN
0393955524
9780393955521
Edition
3rd ed.
Published
New York : Norton, ©1988.
Physical Description
xvii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4707: Paperbound. Autograph: "Samuel R. Delany" with information about receipt of the book. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Summary
In turn-of-the century Africa, colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of these is sea captain Marlow, who penetrates the Congo's jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2002
Series
A Norton critical edition
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-420).
Contents
Author's note
Heart of Darkness
The congo
Conrad in the congo
Writing the story
Conrad on life and art
Heart of darkness : a problem for critics / Robert F. Haugh
The journey within / Albert J. Guerard
An image of Africa : racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness / Chinua Achebe
The frontier on which Heart of Darkness stands / Wilson Harris
The colonialistic bias of Heart of Darkness / Frances B. Singh
Racism and the Heart of Darkness / C.P. Sarvan
Worth the wait : Apocalypse Now / Mike Wilmington
Two visions of the horror / Robert LaBrasca
Heart of Darkness and the process of Apocalypse Now / William M. Hagen
Conrad and Coppola : different centres of darkness / E.N. Dorall
Impressionaism and symbolism in Heart of Darkness / Ian Watt
Watt's Conrad / Robert S. Baker
Conrad's impression and Watt's delayed decoding / Bruce Johnson
Lying as dying in Heart of Darkness / Garrett Stewart
The value and significance of Heart of Darkness / Juliet McLauchlan
The value of facts in the Heart of Darkness / Michael Levenson
Conrad's youth 1902 : an introduction / Robert Kimbrough.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Working Library.
United States New York (State) New York.
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