still reading about conrad & the heart of darkness
more cross references have emerged:
Jonah Raskin
Imperialism: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Journal of Contemporary History
Volume 2, Number 2, April 1967, 118
when looking up this article i came across: Orwell's Patriotism
Stephen Lutman
Orwell's Patriotism
Journal of Contemporary History
Vol. 2, No. 2, Literature and Society (Apr., 1967), pp. 149-158
Friday, October 10, 2008
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
October 7, 2008
a tale of Henry Morton Stanley and his supposed quest to rescue Emin Pasha
The Last Expedition: Stanley's Fatal Journey Through the Congo
By Daniel Liebowitz, Charlie Pearson
Published by Portrait, 2005
ISBN 0749950862, 9780749950866
368 pages
VPL 916.7 S78L
of things that could go wrong, they certainly did
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have been watching Generation Kill (HBO show) - scary how many lives are lost to those that don't care; where is the humanity? how do people become things?
provides me quotes such as "doctrine is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
The Last Expedition: Stanley's Fatal Journey Through the Congo
By Daniel Liebowitz, Charlie Pearson
Published by Portrait, 2005
ISBN 0749950862, 9780749950866
368 pages
VPL 916.7 S78L
of things that could go wrong, they certainly did
----------------------
have been watching Generation Kill (HBO show) - scary how many lives are lost to those that don't care; where is the humanity? how do people become things?
provides me quotes such as "doctrine is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
Monday, October 06, 2008
October 6, 2008
doing an article search using keywords: conrad & modernity
came up with:
Pathologies of the Imperial Metropolis: Impressionism as Traumatic Afterimage in Conrad and Ford.Preview By: Britzolakis, Christina. Journal of Modern Literature, Fall2005, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p1-20, 20p
came up with:
Pathologies of the Imperial Metropolis: Impressionism as Traumatic Afterimage in Conrad and Ford.Preview By: Britzolakis, Christina. Journal of Modern Literature, Fall2005, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p1-20, 20p
Friday, October 03, 2008
October 3, 2008
working my through...
N. Jessica Reifer. Hannah Arendt and Joseph Conrad: Memory, History and the Development of Totalitarian Evil in the Belgian Congo. 2007
which discusses "the role of nineteenth century imperialism on the emergence and development of totalitarian evil"
why you may ask? i think that when one tries to understand the present one needs to have a grasp of what has passed
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Reifer (p. 6)
In Conrad’s novel, we encounter glimpses of the genocides, mass murders, and ethnic conflicts that will become prevalent in the twentieth century -- atrocities committed by “civilized” European adventurers in “backward” countries like the Belgian Congo, colonial domination, native de-humanization, subordination, and extermination -- bringing not only serious abuses of human rights, but simultaneously new possibilities for evil.
we sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf - quotation by George Orwell?
N. Jessica Reifer. Hannah Arendt and Joseph Conrad: Memory, History and the Development of Totalitarian Evil in the Belgian Congo. 2007
which discusses "the role of nineteenth century imperialism on the emergence and development of totalitarian evil"
why you may ask? i think that when one tries to understand the present one needs to have a grasp of what has passed
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Reifer (p. 6)
In Conrad’s novel, we encounter glimpses of the genocides, mass murders, and ethnic conflicts that will become prevalent in the twentieth century -- atrocities committed by “civilized” European adventurers in “backward” countries like the Belgian Congo, colonial domination, native de-humanization, subordination, and extermination -- bringing not only serious abuses of human rights, but simultaneously new possibilities for evil.
we sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf - quotation by George Orwell?
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