EIL 2.4 Conrad Context

Literature and Composition Module 2.4

The Heart of Darkness

Study Guide: Literature and Composition (Excellence in Literature, English 2)

Focus Text

E2 Module 4 focus text is The Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradModule 4: The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Honors: King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard OR

Manalive by G.K. Chesterton

Audiobook: http://amzn.to/2sxMt5h

EIL 2.4 Context Resource Links

These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.

Readings

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5708673/Joseph-Conrads-Heart-of-Darkness.html

The Author’s Life

Chris Fletcher’s Joseph Conrad

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/joseph-conrad-biography

Honors author: https://www.chesterton.org

Historical Context

http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-16-2-a-king-leopold-s-heart-of-darkness

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/i2l/kls.html

http://diglib1.amnh.org/articles/kls/index.html

https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Crime_of_the_Congo

Poetry

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/t-s-eliot-poetry/

https://poetryarchive.org/poet/t-s-eliot/

http://www.aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Default.htm

http://www.aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Poem.htm

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/the-hollow-men-read-aloud-by-t-s-eliot

Audio

Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh

http://librivox.org/heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad/

https://www.mercurytheatre.info

Visual Arts

https://www.wikiart.org/en/cornelia-parker/heart-of-darkness

http://www.wdl.org/en/item/59/

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/congo-democratic-republic-of-the/

Music

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/heart-of-darkness-opera

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/hollow-men-music


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