Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought: Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe - Hardcover

Nidesh Lawtoo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441124616 ISBN 13: 9781441124616

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

Synopsis

With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of contemporary philosophical and critical responses to the text. Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought includes the first publication in English of philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's essay, 'The Horror of the West', described by J. Hillis Miller as 'a major essay on Conrad's novel, one of the best ever written'. In the company of Lacoue-Labarthe, leading scholars explore new readings of Conrad's text from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, narratological and postcolonial approaches. Drawing on the very latest insights of contemporary thought, this is an essential study of one of the most important literary texts of the 20th century.

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About the Author

Nidesh Lawtoo is Lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the author of The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1441124616
• ISBN 13: 9781441124616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Nidesh Lawtoo