期刊名称：Via Panorâmica : Revista Electrónica de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
电子版ISSN：1645-9652
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：2
出版社：Biblioteca Digital da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
摘要：The sociological concept of multiculturalism may be productively applied to the phenomenology of literature and to the reading of cultural distinctions, discontinuities and contradictions that may be narratively interwoven in the plot of fictional works. We chose two narratives from the western literary canon to give an illustration of these possible cultural clashes and sympathies: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Aldous Huxley's Island. The intercultural motif of both narratives allows for a constructive comparative reading that raises perplexing philosophical questions, particularly when they converge on their common topic on which we wish to ponder, namely that of the "Essential Horror".
