Book Description
This new collection of essays on key Conrad texts - Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent - will help students to assess the different critical and theoretical approaches which have emerged over the past thirty years. These approaches include post-colonial discourse, feminism, developments in Marxist critical theory as well as narrative theory and the influence of psychoanalysis.
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This new collection of essays on key Conrad texts - Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent - will help students to assess the different critical and theoretical approaches which have emerged over the past thirty years. These approaches include post-colonial discourse, feminism, developments in Marxist critical theory as well as narrative theory and the influence of psychoanalysis.
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Eleven essays on key Conrad texts"Heart of Darkness, Nostromo"
and "The Secret Agent"help the reader to assess the different
critical and theoretical approaches which have emerged over the past
thirty years. These approaches include postcolonial discourse,
feminism, developments in Marxist critical theory as well as
narrative theory and the influence of psychoanalysis.
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