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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Heart of darkness"”.
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Heart of darkness
… to be everywhere, from behemoths in the cores of almost every galaxy to more modest, stellar-mass objects spattering the Milky Way's arms. Astronomers suspect that super massive black holes like Sagittarius A* (the compact dark object at the center of our galaxy) may be a cosmic mafia …
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The Representation of Natives in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
There is ample justification for seeing Heart of Darkness as a racist text. Conrad's world-view is characterized by a stoical aloofness. Thus on a surface level, his vision is unappealing. In Heart of Darkness, Marlow can evoke a wanton consciousness, infected by the spirit of bestial rapine in the …
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The Theme of Discipline and Control in Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness"
… you won’t find it presumption if, after 22 years of work, I may say that I have not been very well understood, I have been called a writer of the sea, of the tropics, a descriptive writer, a romantic writer—and also a realist. But as a matter of fact all my concern has been with the ideal value of …
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(Anti)imperializmo idėja Džozefo Konrado romane "Tamsos Širdis" /
Idea of (anti)Imperialism in Joseph Conrad's Novel "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad’s famous novel “Heart of Darkness” became an object of intense discussions. After famous Chinua Achebe’s article An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness published in 1977 where he accuses J. Conrad …
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Narratief en trauma : 'n ondersoek na die gebruik van ‘‘trauma’’ as 'n literêre kategorie in die analise van tekste
This dissertation seeks to explore the notion of "trauma" as a useful tool in the analysis of literary texts. For this reason, aspects of psychological theory pertaining to trauma will be applied to various Afrikaans texts. Horrelpoot (2006) by Eben Venter, as well as Equatoria (2006) by Tom Dreyer …
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Speaking and the world : a phenomenology of voice
The aim of this work is to describe how the human speaking voice can be simultaneously present and absent to those who hear and listen. A significant portion of the work is devoted to a study of Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness with a focus on the character Kurtz who is described as "little …
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The Explorer in English Fiction
Although there have been a number of critical works on the novel given over to topics such as adventure, colonization or the politics of the frontier, a comparative study of novels in which an encounter with unknown territory holds central importance has till now been lacking. My aim in this thesis …
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Adapting poetics : a fusion of ideas in literature to film adaptation
… theory, one that exploits theproductive aspects of the two main tendencies in adaptation studies, fidelity and intertextuality. Thequestion that is addressed here is how the prioritization of a novel's poetics as the focal point for thetransposition of the literary text can inform the study and …
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The creation of a national identity: construction and representations with a case study of Mobutu's Zaire
… has multiple narratives and voices, the notion of barbaric backward Africa has lived on. The shift to independence from Belgian Congo to Zaire marked the reclamation of not only an African identity but the African voice. While his rule was characterised by patronage politics and corruption, …
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Da representação do espaço ao diálogo com a alteridade : uma leitura de Joseph Conrad e Ferreira de Castro
… do espaço e do tempo que separam “An Outpost of Progress” e Heart of Darkness, de Joseph Conrad, e A Selva e Instinto Supremo, de Ferreira de Castr,o pareceu-nos possível reflectir sobre eventuais analogias não só na representação do espaço como das estratégias de diálogo com a alteridade. …
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Forms of Global Health
… a critical medical humanities and a literature of global health by first investigating the function of literature in the development of earlier specialties in international health, with tropical medicine at the turn of the twentieth century as a key example. Scholarship in history and rhetoric …
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"A disciple has crossed over by water": an analysis of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria quartet in its Egyptian historical and intellectual contexts
… It contests the idea that the Alexandria of the Quartet is essentially a city of the imagination which bears little or no relation to the real city of history. It argues that various strata of Alexandrian history, from antiquity to the nineteen- fifties, are deeply embedded in Durrell’s …
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Existentially self deceptive storytelling: a new genre
… is an exploration into the function and form of storytelling. Its initial assumption is that consciousness is a genetically transmitted mechanism which generates a concept of self by creating a story. In this formulation, the consciousness is called narrative-consciousness. Since the concept …
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The explorer in English fiction
Although there have been a number of critical works on the novel given over to topics such as adventure, colonization or the politics of the frontier, a comparative study of novels in which an encounter with unknown territory holds central importance has till now been lacking. My aim in this thesis …
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The tourist
… is intended to assemble the myriad refractions of my experience, in their myriad tonalities, and make them whole, enduring, literary–and integral in a way that only they can be integral. It is the first finished representation (or battle ground) in my long-time struggle to amalgamate the …
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