This new collection of essays on key Conrad texts - Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent - will help students to assess the different critical and theoretical approaches which have emerged over the past thirty years. These approaches include post-colonial discourse, feminism, developments in Marxist critical theory as well as narrative theory and the influence of psychoanalysis.
This new collection of essays on key Conrad texts - Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent - will help students to assess the different critical and theoretical approaches which have emerged over the past thirty years. These approaches include post-colonial discourse, feminism, developments in Marxist critical theory as well as narrative theory and the influence of psychoanalysis.
Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction: Reading Conrad; E.Jordan.- Ideological Perspectives: Kurtz and the Fate of Victorian Progress; I.Watt.- The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing; N.Pelikan Straus.- An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness; P.Brooks.- The Discoursing Heart: Conrad's Heart of Darkness; C.L.Miller.- The Novel as Beginning Intention: Nostromo; E.W.Said.- Romance and Reification: Plot Construction and Ideological Closure in Nostromo; F.Jameson.- Nostromo and the Failure of Myth; D.Erdinast-Vulcan.- A Play of Signs: Nostromo; J.Reilly.- Form, Ideology and The Secret Agent; T.Eagleton.- The Fragmentation of Sympathy in The Secret Agent; A.Fogel.- The Woman in Black: Unravelling Race and Gender in The Secret Agent; R.Stott.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.
Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction: Reading Conrad; E.Jordan.- Ideological Perspectives: Kurtz and the Fate of Victorian Progress; I.Watt.- The Exclusion of the Intended from Secret Sharing; N.Pelikan Straus.- An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness; P.Brooks.- The Discoursing Heart: Conrad's Heart of Darkness; C.L.Miller.- The Novel as Beginning Intention: Nostromo; E.W.Said.- Romance and Reification: Plot Construction and Ideological Closure in Nostromo; F.Jameson.- Nostromo and the Failure of Myth; D.Erdinast-Vulcan.- A Play of Signs: Nostromo; J.Reilly.- Form, Ideology and The Secret Agent; T.Eagleton.- The Fragmentation of Sympathy in The Secret Agent; A.Fogel.- The Woman in Black: Unravelling Race and Gender in The Secret Agent; R.Stott.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.
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