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10 Cards in this Set
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Albert J. Guerard
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-Freudian Psychoanalytic
-Wrote book aside from beginning or the Nellie is a dream -Conrad's subconscious -Kurtz is Marlow's Id (no restraints) -Marlow = Superego |
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Chinua Achebe
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-Every theory (except feminism and marxism)
-Race -How much of Conrad is Marlow and how much is Marlow of Conrad? -Africa is a foil to Europe which is only reason it's mentioned. -Africa = Place where white man's mind deteriorates -Conrad is product of age with regards to view of black men. |
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Ian Watt
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-Duplication of narrators (narrator on boat and Marlow)
-Marlow -The Meaning -Symbolist-meaning behind story -Impressionist-plot-delayed decoding-moments of crisis- ambiguous nature -Goals of symbolists 1. Ontological- existence 2. Expressive |
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Hunt Hawkins
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-Answering Achebe saying he's not racist
-Conrad wasn't trying to be racist -Illustrates anti-colonial ideas -Dehumanization of Africans in comparison to animals -Humanizes Africans -Conrad uses Marlow to sympathize with Africans -Conrad is against Imperialism -Corruption is with Kurtz -Conrad is product of his age |
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Marianna Torgovnick
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-Feminisim/ Deconstruction?/ Possible Psychoanalytic
-West is having crisis of identity so must define subject.object of every relationship (dominate/subordinate) -Language masks what's really happening in Congo -Miscegenation= relationships across races (Kurtz having black mistress despite having a fiance) -Huge issue at the time -Women=body, uncivilized, irrational -Men=Brain, civilized, rational |
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Jeremy Hawthorn
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-Feminism
-Intended-death-black/darkness -Mistress-Life/Fertile-White/Light -Conrad can't avoid speaking of women -Darkness exists everywhere -Kurtz' piece of art (women blindfolded and holding torch) -Intended blinded to real Kurtz -Women are in a world of their own |
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Edward Said
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-Postcolonialsm
-Conrad is self-conscious about widespread imperialism and realism -Wants to change it but can't because he knows no better way -2 visions of postcolonial world (possible ways Conrad's novel can offer argument's) -Imperialism plays out -Imperialism is local to time and place -Only going to happen in certain time periods (will be gaps) |
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Andrew Michael Roberts
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-Homosexuality between Kurtz and Marlow
-Male relationships (sharing of "secret" knowledge) -Pg. 457-458 -Women=objects (Intended= Ivory, object of economy of same sex desires) -Women exist to personify all the things men wat to do but can't because of culture -Male desires being channeled through women -The triangle between the two men and one women |
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J. Hillis Miller
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-Response to Achebe
-Should we or should we not read HofD? -Reader Response -Should read because it's good literature and cane derive our own meaning 1.) Narrator removes author (removes bias) 2.) Uses of similes and other rhetorical devices -Creates a subtext that reveals truth (iceberg) 3.) Irony p. 466-467(constant and part of subject) 4.) Personification of darkness -Definition is difficult for each person and bringing own meaning to it |
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Lissa Schneider
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-Feminism
-Kurtz's portrait of blind women -Women=Light -Men= Blindness -Marlow says portrait is Intended -Race of portrait is never specified in text -Male characters feminized by women -Image is paradoxical -Powerful= Liberty and Justice of Amazonian ideals -Powerless= Woman, blindfolded |