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Heart of Darkness

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  • Feb 1996

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Authors:
  1. Joseph Conrad
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Editors:
  1. Ross C Murfin

    1. University of Miami, USA

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Part of the book series: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (CSICC)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Heart of Darkness: The Complete Text

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts

      • Joseph Conrad
      Pages 3-16

    3. Heart of Darkness

      • Joseph Conrad
      Pages 17-95

  3. Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. A Critical History of Heart of Darkness

      • Joseph Conrad
      Pages 99-114

    3. Reader-Response Criticism and Heart of Darkness

      • Joseph Conrad
      Pages 115-147

    4. Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness

      • Joseph Conrad
      Pages 148-184

    5. Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness

      • Joseph Conrad
      Pages 185-220

    6. The New Historicism and Heart of Darkness

      • Joseph Conrad
      Pages 221-257

    7. Cultural Criticism and Heart of Darkness

      • Joseph Conrad
      Pages 258-298

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 299-315
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About this book

Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.

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  • University of Miami, USA

    Ross C Murfin

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