Narrow your search

Library

UGent (10)

ULiège (7)

KU Leuven (5)

Odisee (5)

UAntwerpen (5)

ULB (5)

LUCA School of Arts (3)

Thomas More Kempen (3)

Thomas More Mechelen (3)

UCLouvain (3)

More...

Resource type

book (10)


Language

English (9)

German (1)


Year
From To Submit

2012 (1)

2011 (2)

2007 (1)

1999 (1)

1988 (1)

More...
Listing 1 - 10 of 10
Sort by

Book
Heart of darkness : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0230333451 0312457537 9780230333451 9780312457532 Year: 2011 Publisher: Boston : Bedford-St. Martins,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"Part One of this volume reprints the text of 'Heart of darkness' from the 1921 Heinemann edition of Conrad's 'Collected works' - the latest version of the text that Conrad approved. Part Two includes documents and illustrations providing cultural contexts for 'Heart of darkness'. Part Three features a critical history of the novella, plus six contemporary essays representing deconstruction; feminist, gender, and queer theory; and a new historicist, post-colonial, and psychoanalytic approaches to Conrad's most famous tale."--P. vii.


Book
Joseph Conrad : language and fictional self-consciousness
Author:
ISBN: 0713162074 9780713162073 Year: 1979 Publisher: London Arnold


Book
Conrad's Heart of darkness : a critical and contextual discussion
Author:
ISBN: 1283543060 9786613855510 9401208026 9789401208024 9042035277 9789042035270 9781283543064 6613855510 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book offers a detailed discussion of Conrad’s most brilliant and problematic work. Many significant aspects of Heart of Darkness are examined, from plot and characterisation to imagery and symbolism, and particular attention is paid to its ambiguity and paradoxes. By relating the text to a variety of contexts, Cedric Watts explores Conrad’s central preoccupations as a writer and as a commentator on his age. The first edition of this study appeared in 1977, and reviewers described it as ‘criticism of the highest order’ ( Joseph Conrad Today ) and ‘an important book’ ( Conradiana ).

Heart of darkness : an authoritative text, backgrounds, and sources, criticism
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0393955524 9780393955521 Year: 1988 Publisher: London: Norton,

Die Wiederkehr des Erzählens: deutschsprachige Prosa der 80er und 90er Jahre
Author:
ISBN: 3534144635 Year: 1999 Publisher: Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft


Book
Joseph Conrad : the modern imagination
Author:
ISBN: 0460105744 0874715482 9780874715484 9780460105743 Year: 1974 Publisher: London Dent

Discovering Orson Welles
Author:
ISBN: 1282360248 0520940717 1429471832 143370966X 9780520940710 9781429471831 9780520247383 0520247388 9780520251236 0520251237 9781282360242 9786612360244 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles's career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has long believed that to dwell on this aspect of the Welles canon is to overlook the wealth of information available by studying the unrealized works. Discovering Orson Welles collects Rosenbaum's writings to date on Welles-some thirty-five years of them-and makes an irrefutable case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist and Welles the man. The book is also a chronicle of Rosenbaum's highly personal writer's journey and his efforts to arrive at the truth. The essays, interviews, and reviews are arranged chronologically and are accompanied by commentary that updates the scholarship. Highlights include Rosenbaum's 1972 interview with Welles about his first Hollywood project, Heart of Darkness; Rosenbaum's rebuttal to Pauline Kael's famous essay "Raising Kane"; detailed essays and comprehensive discussions of Welles's major unfinished work, including two unrealized projects, The Big Brass Ring and The Cradle Will Rock; and an account of Rosenbaum's work as consultant on the 1998 re-editing of Touch of Evil, based on a studio memo by Welles.


Book
The event of postcolonial shame
Author:
ISBN: 1282936476 9786612936470 1400836492 9781400836499 9781282936478 9780691141657 0691141657 9780691141664 0691141665 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it.

Keywords

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Act of Violence. --- Alain Badiou. --- Alterity. --- Antithesis. --- Autobiography. --- Being and Nothingness. --- Caryl Phillips. --- Colonialism. --- Conceptualization (information science). --- Conscience. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Culture and Imperialism. --- Cynicism (contemporary). --- Decolonization. --- Dialectic. --- Diegesis. --- Disenchantment. --- Disgrace. --- Disgust. --- Dusklands. --- Edward Said. --- Emblem. --- Essay. --- Ethics. --- Exclusion. --- Explanation. --- Fiction. --- Frantz Fanon. --- Franz Kafka. --- G. (novel). --- Gilles Deleuze. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Henri Bergson. --- Humiliation. --- Ideology. --- Impossibility. --- In the Heart of the Country. --- Inseparability. --- Irony. --- J. M. Coetzee. --- Jean-Paul Sartre. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Kurtz (Heart of Darkness). --- Lag. --- Literature. --- Lord Jim. --- Michel Leiris. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modernity. --- Mrs. --- Nadine Gordimer. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Novelist. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Ontology. --- Pathos. --- Pessimism. --- Peter Hallward. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pier Paolo Pasolini. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Positivism. --- Postmodernism. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Primo Levi. --- Principle. --- Publication. --- Racism. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Samuel Beckett. --- Self-hatred. --- Seven Pillars of Wisdom. --- Shame. --- Slavery. --- Slow Man. --- Subaltern (postcolonialism). --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symptom. --- T. E. Lawrence. --- Temporality. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Wretched of the Earth. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- V. S. Naipaul. --- Vocation (poem). --- Writer. --- Writing.

Listing 1 - 10 of 10
Sort by