Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-21T09:03:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / The goal of this study is to perform a comparative analysis of several theoretical models and corresponding interpretations of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in order to arrive at a position with respect to the conflicting aspects of these theoretical models and interpretations within a broader rereading of Heart of Darkness. As demonstrated in an extensive selection of critical texts, literary criticism today remains contentiously divided, and Heart of Darkness is frequently cited and interpreted as evidence in the debates concerning the nature and limits of criticism (Gandhi, 1998; Jameson, 1981; Kimbrough, ed. 1988; Murfin, ed., 1989; Said, 1993). This study engages the problematic split between those theoretical models and interpretations that focus on the fragmented nature of language and those others that stress the relationship between texts and non-textual, historical reality. Through its comparative analysis, this study argues that the explicit terms of the polemic split between history and language are problematic because of how they deny the shared tendencies of these two approaches. Finally, this study's reading of Heart of Darkness emphasizes the inseparability of these two critical approaches, even though some irreconcilable aspects exist in both.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.ufsc.br:123456789/86637 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Simonds, Nicholas Snow |
| Contributors | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Bellei, Sergio Luiz Prado |
| Publisher | Florianópolis, SC |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, instname:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, instacron:UFSC |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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