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Table of contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
How to study a novel
Reading Heart of Darkness

PART TWO: THE TEXT
Note on the text
Synopsis
Detailed summaries
    Chapter 1
    Chapter 2
    Chapter 3
Extended commentaries
    Text 1 - pages 20-1
    Text 2 - pages 54-6
    Text 3 - pages 87-8

PART THREE: CRITICAL APPROACHES
Characterisation
    Marlow
    Kurtz
    The Accountant
    The Manager and his 'faithless pilgrims'
    The Brickmaker
    The Harlequin
    The Natives
    The Helmsman
    Kurtz's Native Mistress
    The Intended
    Minor Characters
Themes
    Colonialism
    Journey into the Self and into the Unconscious
    A glimpsed truth
Narrative technique
    The structure and the handling of time
    Irony
    Symbolism and imagery
Language and style

PART FOUR: CRITICAL HISTORY
Creative responses
Critical responses
    Postcolonial criticism

PART FIVE: BACKGROUND
Joseph Conrad
    Other works by Conrad
Historical background
Chronology

FURTHER READING

LITERARY TERMS

AUTHOR OF THESE NOTES