The formal prompt is: Your main goal is to posit an argument (rather than an observation) about a text we’ve read in class. That is, your goal is to take a debatable stand on something we’ve covered or that has been assigned in the course. We’ve discussed modernism and modernist aesthetics frequently in this class. Write a close reading that explores how and why we might consider Heart of Darkness a modernist novella at the level of form (how the novel is written) rather than plot (what happens in the story).
This is the book you need to read for the essay:
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Oxford World’s Classics): ISBN-13: 978-0199536016