Heart of Darkness: Character StudiesBloomsbury Academic, 2008 M05 27 - 110 pages Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) is one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth century. It has provoked much critical debate, on issues such as fin de siècle doubt and pessimism, European colonialism, racism, and misogyny. Engaging with the novel's characters is crucial to understanding its complexity and its criticalhistory. |
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... Impressionism ' ( pp . 169-80 ) in his chapter on Heart of Darkness . Literary impressionism is a complex and rather contentious area in literary studies ( J. A. Cuddon says that ' impressionist ' and ' impressionism ' ' are vague terms ...
... Impressionism ' , Ford states : ' any piece of Impressionism , whether it be prose , or verse , or painting , or sculpture , is the record of the impression of the moment ; it is not a sort of rounded , anno- tated record of a set of ...
... Impressionism limited ' , in Norman Sherry ( ed . ) , Joseph Conrad : A Commemoration . London : Macmillan , pp . 54–64 . Hewitt , John ( 1975 ) , Conrad : A Reassessment . London : Bowes & Bowes . Hyland , Peter ( 1988 ) , ' The little ...