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10 Cards in this Set

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Albert J. Guerard
-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
Chinua Achebe
-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.
Ian Watt
-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
Hunt Hawkins
-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
Marianna Torgovnick
-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
Jeremy Hawthorn
-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
Edward Said
-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)
Andrew Michael Roberts
-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
J. Hillis Miller
-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
Lissa Schneider
-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