Language and Verbal Art Revisited - Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature - Donna R. Miller
The meaning of ‘dark*’ in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Language and Verbal Art Revisited - Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature - Donna R. Miller
Monica Turci [+]
University of Bologna
Monica Turci is Assistant Professor of English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Bologna. Her publications include the volume, Approaching That Perfect Edge. A Study of the Metafictional Writings of Michael Ondaatje 1967-1982, 2001, and articles on the relation between language and literature: “Recasting Translation and Migration: Les Murray’s Translation from the Natural World”, 2004; “‘Remembering in translation’: Language and memory in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation”, 2004; and “Questions of Style in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”.
Description
In this article, Turci makes a contribution to the still ongoing debate concerning the relation among Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, representations of the African continent and the phenomenon of Imperialism. She does so through an analysis of the lemma dark*, and its diverse word forms, as it is reiterated throughout this novella.