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This talk provides insights into the pioneering importance and limits of Heart of Darkness, a profoundly psychologically engrossing and disturbing piece of literature.

Great! giving thanks all the way from the University of Pretoria, South Africa

Thank you. Exquisite summary and related elements from the beginning to the ending of the story.

Brilliant lecture, Professor. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom.

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Please, how can we study sounds inside the novel? Musicality is it one of the strategies used by Toni Morrison?

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A wonderfull talk! I like this kind of thinking that does not shy away from moving inside places but also dares to move back out, to touch upon matter without getting lost in pure materiality: to also notice immaterial realities encoded in its material forms like indices of time, space and sociality. It made me think about a movie called 'The Terminal', where a man (played by Tom Hanks) is stuck and thus forced to live in a terminal and therefore out of tune with the chronotope of disagregation. I think this creates an oddness that we reconcile with laughter (humor). Is there any analysis of humor as a function of chronotopic transgression and how that is used in narrative fiction (or non-fiction) today?

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Building on your point of form preceeding content- the heart of darkness is a difficult read, it has an unusual word choice, long meandering sentences, and the piling up of adjectives like you mentioned. Also conrad will often talk about things not obviously relevant to the story. The same way Marlow had to navigate the river and hack thru the obscure jungle, we as readers are navigating thru Conrad's obscure sentences. Perhaps even becoming "obsessed" to reaching the end of the story.

That was wonderful, thank you. I've just read this book and now I want to read it again. I wish you had spent some extra time on the imagery of the narrator's world and the dynamics of his home village and his life as a civil servant. ❤❤❤ Oh, and now I need to see Othello too😂

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So, while "Arrow of God" can be viewed through an existential lens in some respects, it might be more accurate to consider these elements as part of its rich thematic structure rather than classifying the entire novel strictly as existentialist.

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I am writing a paper and this helped a lot, great vid!

Thank you for this analyses Prof.

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The Onion satirical article is brilliant!

It was never Antisemitic.

I enjoyed the lecture, but somewhat grating is the assertion near the outset that "The Tempest" was the last of Shakespeare's plays. It may have been the last of Shakespeare's sole-authored plays, but Shakespeare wrote at least a substantial portion (perhaps the whole, but at least a substantial portion) of "Henry VIII" after "The Tempest." Shakespeare probably also wrote a substantial portion of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" as the final drama in which he had a hand. "The Tempest" does tend to come across as Shakespeare's farewell to playwriting, but he was not quite finished with that activity when he wrote it.

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Yours is incredibly profound, enriching and enlightening analysis Sir. The refrences are unique. The quality of presentation is incredible❤But Volume is little low.

Is there a Transcript for this excellent talk?

Your analysis of the relationship between the ilo and the evil forest is so interesting!

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Outstanding!

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Thank you sir. I am Ranjan from India. I am doing PhD on Toni Morrison. Please make a criticism video on Toni Morrison's works. Please

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I came across your channel looking for insight in "waiting for the Barbarians" and you answered the question I was struggling with. I really enjoy your dialogue and the tenor of your voice. Thank you for giving the gift of your knowledge and interests to us.

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Prof, this is incredible. Thank you so much.

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Someone please mention Bakhtin's original text which discusses chronotopes of aggregation & disaggregation. Need it for my thesis.

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Shakespeare was a Jew-hating, racist jerk. Thank You for showing more detail about his bigoted writings.

Very helpful with teaching the play to my class- much appreciated

This is the best analysis

If you are Black you waste your time on seeing race everywhere and in everything. It’s all you are supposed to do

I'm enjoying the professor's critiques. In this one, I must say that at around the 7:20 mark the prof. should've included zionist israel & its treatment of Palestinians as the 3rd example of contemporary postcolonialism, after China & Russia to give a bit of balance with respect to NATO (i.e., U.S. & its minions) vs. non-NATO nations. Plus, israel's treatment of Palestinians is far more vicious, oppressive than that of the other two cited countries.

How was Okonkows life influenced by his wider social context?