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Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
Heart of Darkness A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism Author:Joseph Conrad This new edition of Conrad's classic short novel presents the authoritative 1921 Heinemann text -- regarded by Conrad as his "final" version - together with five critical essays specially comissioned to interpret Heart of Darkness for a student audience. Each essay illustrated an important contemporary movement in critical theory and is written ... more »by an exemplary representative of that movement:
Psychoanalytic Criticism by Frederick R. Karl
Reader-Response Criticism by Adena Rosmarin
Feminist Criticism by Johanna M. Smith
Deconstruction by J. Hills Miller
The New Historicism by Brook Thomas
Each of the five analyses is preceded by an introduction that briefly presents the history and principles of the critical approach and is followed by a bibliography that promotes further exploration in that approach. The editor has also provided a bibliographical and historical introduction to Conrad and Heart of Darkness, and a history of critical response to the novel from its original publication in 1899 to the present day, as well as a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.« less