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  • © 1991

The Critics Debate: Heart of Darkness

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  1. Robert Burden
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Survey

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    3. Mythic and psychoanalytic criticism

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 13-17

    4. Anthropological and political criticism

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 17-31

    5. Realism and modernism

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 32-44

    6. Stylistic analysis

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 45-53

    7. Narratology and Marxist criticism

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 53-64

  3. Appraisal

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Introduction to discourse theory

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 65-67

    3. The discourses of Heart of Darkness

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 67-75

    4. The clash of discourses

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 76-78

    5. The post-colonialist reader

      • Robert Burden
      Pages 78-82

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 83-90
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About this book

The first part of the book comprises a survey of the criticism written on Conrad's novel to date. Psychoanalytical, political and stylistic aspects are covered. In the second part the author pursues a reading based on discourse theory and assesses the place of the book in a post-colonial world.
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