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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 20   AIL 1933 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Conrad as an Empire Text

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The idea

Unit ten worked the opening of Heart of Darkness: an unnamed narrator aboard a yawl on the Thames, handing the story to Marlow. Published eighteen ninety-nine, public domain, and set in a colonised territory. It is the band's central empire text here.

In practice

The band's central empire text.

Where people slip

Unit ten worked the opening.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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