Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Oxford University Professor Valentine Cunningham talks to Jon Connell about Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, 1899.

Themes of Val’s discussion:
- Significance of the novel throughout history
- British Imperialism and the Congo Experience
- Engaging with European Colonial History through Conrad’s fiction
- Narrative technique
- Marlow as an unreliable narrator
- Narration and the failure of language

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