Conrad's Heart of Darkness

AvAllan Simmons

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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"Reader's Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of Darkness" (1902), is a key text in the development of modernism and one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth century. This guide provides an invaluable introduction to reading Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and includes sections on its contexts, language and style, critical reception and literary and film adaptations, including Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", and finally an annotated guide to further reading.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-02-28
Mått:138 x 216 x 10 mm
Vikt:280 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Reader's Guides
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826489333

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Allan Simmons is Senior Lecturer in English at St. Mary's College, University of Surrey, UK. He is General Editor of The Conradian (Rodopi).

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'Allan Simmons then takes you straight into an analysis of the story via his consideration of Conrad's use of English (which was his third language) his narrator Marlow, and his use of the novella as a literary form... ...A level students and undergraduates will find his analyses of the details thought-provoking - and the process should lead them towards the complexities of investigation they might be making on their own behalf. At the same time, anyone teaching the novella will find his approach useful...In the two final chapters Simmons traces Conrad's reputation as a writer from the publication of Heart of Darkness to the present, then he looks at the adaptations - nearly ninety films and even a piano concerto. There is still interpretive work to be done on many aspects of Conrad - not least his attitude to women - but works such as this help to provide the means whereby this work will be done.' Roy Johnson, 2007 - mantex.co.uk

Innehållsförteckning

1. Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading Heart of Darkness; 4. Critical Reception and Publishing History; 5. Adaptation, interpretation and influence; 6. Guide to Further Reading; Index.