This definitive multimedia resource is the key to a thorough understanding of the many levels of interpretation of Conrad’s classic but demanding novella.
Featuring:
• complete text of Heart of Darkness, searchable by word or phrase
• Conrad’s preface to his novel The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (first edition, 1897)
• excerpts from Conrad’s letters to Blackwood’s Magazine, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, and Elsie Hueffer
• video clips of noted Conrad scholars Bruce Harkness, Frederick Karl, Jerome Meckier, and Dwight Purdy analyzing a variety of topics, including Conrad’s use of doubling and the truth-telling cycle, Kurtz as nightmare, and Conrad’s maritime experience
• essays on deconstructionist, psychoanalytical, feminist, Marxist, and New Historicism approaches to interpretation
• 11 essays on topics such as whether or not Heart of Darkness is racist; Conrad’s Congo trip; and his friendships with H. G. Wells, Ford Madox Ford, Stephen Crane, and Henry James
• hyperlinks that allow users to gloss thousands of words and phrases to learn definitions, etymologies, geographical locations, and the meanings of puns and allusions
• annotated bibliography with dozens of citations
• color map of the Belgian Congo in the 1890s, "copy to notebook" and print capabilities, and Internet connection
The CD-ROM can be used with either Windows or Macintosh.