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[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Diana suggests:
"I think _Heart of Darkness_ marks a crucial turning point from motivated
to unmotivated quest narratives--it's both, eh?--but I am happy to be
dissuaded of this by compelling evidence otherwise."


I think you're right about HOD, but you can find analogies in other places--
take Tennyson's "Ulysses" (also a nicely frank admission of the racial
and sexual substructure of imperialism), but you can certainly go back to
Don Quixote at least for an ironic approach.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)