The story of Marlow travelling upriver in central Africa to find Kurtz, an ivory agent as consumed by the horror of human life as he is by physical illness, has long been considered a classic, and continues to be widely read and studied This edition, edited by one of the leading figures in ‘the Conrad controversy,’ includes an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as a fascinating variety of contemporary documents that help to set this extraordinary work in the context of the period from which it emerged. The introduction and bibliography have been updated, and two new appendices have been added; the second of these is a selection of Alice Harris’s extraordinary but little-known photographs documenting the horrors of colonialism in turn-of-the-century Congo. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
在大多数英雄故事中,主角需要勇气和坚韧去赢得胜利,但主要是针对外部环境对他们造成的挑战做出回应。西方古典文学遵循这一传统,行为主宰情节,在时间递进中,一步步丰满三一律所需,完善因果链条上的动机与结局,试图让一切清楚无误。现代小说与古典小说的分野,令时间之线...
评分 评分英国文学史课上初读约瑟夫·康拉德的英文版《黑暗之心》(The Heart of Darkness)时,我毫不例外被作者笔下刻画出的十九与二十世纪之交,帝国主义和殖民主义所衍生出的霸权统治的野蛮、种族压迫的晦暗、现代文明的矛盾所深深震撼。然而,当体验了社会性别与女性研究的知识后,...
评分被迫看得英文版的,别的不好说,就是挺崇拜康拉德的,都30多了开始学英语还能拿英语写作当作家,无疑给吾辈打了一针强心针,让我觉得我又有希望了。。。“文明人”,“野蛮人”,文明的播种者还是野蛮的殖民者,这些问题太老套了又太尖锐了,作为一个第三世界的女人,想这些我...
评分For History 212 class
评分I Listened to the audiobook in Linbribox yet I like the cover of this paperback.
评分I Listened to the audiobook in Linbribox yet I like the cover of this paperback.
评分For History 212 class
评分For History 212 class
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