Questions and Answers for Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Is "Hart of Darkness" an autobiography, a prose poem or a prose fiction? I think is a prose fiction...
Heart of Darkness is clearly a work of prose fiction, and it is also somewhat autobiographical, as pointed out by the previous answerer. It should be noted that the language of Heart of Darkness is...
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Why is the ivory so important in Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart Darkness?
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Kurtz is at the Inner Station; the only way they know that he is still alive (because he has stopped corresponding) is because he continues to be enormously...
Joseph Conrad
What are the main differences between "Englishness" and "Britishness" with reference to Joseph Conrad and E. M....
I think you are asking whether, in the field of international literature, there is a difference between English and British. Of course, Britain is an “empire” consisting of several countries, one...
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What is the most authoritative biography of Joseph Conrad which focuses upon the psychology of the man? For my own...
You could start out with Conrad's biographies from his own mouth. There is "A Personal Record" by Conrad, and many of his letters have been published in volumes. Zdzislaw Najder is a great Conrad...
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Analyze, through an examination of textual elements / themes relevant to Modernism, Conrad’s critique of imperialism.
Modernism loosely coincided with a widespread movement toward commercialism, a new kind of nationalism and the end of imperialism world-wide (due to its replacement by a global capitalist system)....
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Compare and Contrast Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.Compare and Contrast Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.
Since the topic is wide open, I think you need to be ready for a variety of approaches to it. One particular striking feature that can be shown side to side is how Conrad deals with the notion of...
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 1900-1950?
This refers to the increasing trend in this time to focus more and more on the inner lives of characters rather than on external events. This was part of a greater artistic and cultural movement...
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Heart of Darkness: IN WHAT WAY IS THIS NOVELLA A MODERNIST TEXT? What does Heart of Darkness have to say about...
Thematically, many texts we now identify as modernist are concerned with a with the "subjectivity of reality". Woolf, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot all dealt with ideas of a break...