Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness

Hastily written in pencil and serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899 as 'The Heart of Darkness", and later published in book from in 1902, as Heart of Darkness, the sibylline charm of the novel has etablished it as one of the most important canonicla texts of British literature. Critics have seen the book as an 'angry document on absurd and brutal exploitation' (Guerard), ' probably the greatest short novel in English' (Karl), 'an annunciation fo the Savage God' (Cox), and adventure story, an early instance of modern fiction, and existential novel, and an early specimen of New Historicism.
About Author :
A full Professor since 1982, and recently retired Dr. Mohit K. Ray is one of the senior-most Professors of English in the country. He has three books and a large number of research papers published in scholarly journals in India and abroad, which reflect his wide range of scholarship including Criticism, Comparative Literature, New Literatures, Canoncial Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies.
Contents :
Geneal Preface Introduction Heart of Darkness The Story Outline Contexts i The Historical Bakcground ii The Autobiographical Background Detailed Critical Analysis of the Title and the Text i Part One ii Part Two iii Part Three Issues i Critique of Colonialism ii Levels of Journey iii Forms of Darkness iv Images of Africa v Narrative Techniue vi Symbols, Images, Metaphors, and Irony, etc. vii Title viii Treatment of Women ix Marlow's Lies x Heart of Darkness and Modernism xi Heart of Darkness and Existentialism xiii Hear of Darkness and New Historicism characters in Heart of Darkness Conrad on Fiction and His Critics i Some Relevant Excerpts from Conrad's Own Writings ii Some Critical Responses iii A Short Outline of Conrad Chronology A Select Bibliogaphy