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Title:

Conrad's 'Heart of darkness' and contemporary thought : revisiting the horror with Lacoue-Labarthe / edited by Nidesh Lawtoo.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924.--Heart of darkness.
Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe.
Africa--In literature.

Other Authors:

Lawtoo, Nidesh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : 'an emotion of thought' / Nidesh Lawtoo -- Prologue : revisiting 'Heart of darkness revisited' (in the company of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe) / J. Hillis Miller -- Heart of darkness revisited / J. Hillis Miller -- Modernism, myth and Heart of darkness / Michael Bell -- Civilization and its darkness / Jonathan Dollimore -- A frame for 'the horror of the west' / Nidesh Lawtoo -- The horror of the west / Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe -- Philippe's lessons of darkness / Fran©ʹois Warin -- La lettre, Lacon, Lacoue-Labarthe : Heart of darkness redux / Stephen Ross -- The voice of darkness / Claude Maisonnat -- The horror of trauma : mourning or melancholia in Heart of darkness? / Beth S. Ash -- Conrad's Dionysian elegy / Henry Staten -- Sounding the hollow heart of the west : x-rays and the technique de la mort / Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Roch©·re -- The horror of mimesis : echoing Lacoue-Labarthe / Nidesh Lawtoo -- Postface : a talk with Avital Ronell (about Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe).

ISBN:

1441101004 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781441101006 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1441124616 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781441124616 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)777652612

LCCN:

2012005162

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)