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Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.
Re-Editioned Texts: Heart of Darkness is a novel by Stephanie Syjuco, with 12 reproduced versions of Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. Each version of the novel includes Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness opened in different online sources and printed without any changes. Each version is unique to the other 11.
El corazón en las tinieblas (English: Heart of Darkness) is a 1990 film directed by Venezuelan Román Chalbaud based on Pierre Kast's project Le Radjah de la Mer, inspired by Joseph Conrad's novella of the same name. Like the novel, the film is about Joseph Conrad's journey to the Congo as a settler between 1890 and 1914.
"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 1975. The essay was included in his 1988 collection, Hopes and Impediments.
Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, who became notorious for his brutality, is one of the historical persons that may have inspired Kurtz's persona.. Kurtz's persona is generally understood to derive from the notoriously brutal history of the so-called Congo Free State, a territory that existed as the private property of King Leopold II from 1885 to 1908 until it was taken over by Belgium and became a ...
In the same vein as Edward Said's Orientalism, Lindqvist contextualizes Conrad's Heart of Darkness and examines the impact of European explorers, theologians, politicians, and historians on the development of racist ideologies. Lindqvist's aim is to help readers comprehend the horrific statement "Exterminate all the brutes" by tracing its roots ...
This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, stories concerned with the themes of maturity and old age, respectively. "Youth" depicts a young man's first journey to the Far East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim, Chance, and Heart of Darkness. The narrator's introduction suggests ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Heart of Darkness (Playhouse 90) R. Re-Edition Texts: Heart of Darkness; S. Spec Ops: The Line