Simpsons - episode Bart of darkness: a rear window to the heart of darkness

Abstract

This article focuses on intertextual relations motivated by the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The novel has inspired the provoking episode Bart of Darkness from The Simpsons series, besides having given rise to an hononymous fim and to another filmic transposition called Apocalypse Now. In order to discuss this network of relations among texts, theoretical approaches proposed by Gérard Genette (2003) and Leyla Perrone-Moisés (1978), as well as Brian McFarlane’s studies on adaptation (1996) have been useful

Keywords

• bart of darkness
• os simpsons
• heart of darkness
• apocalypse now