| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Speech Communities. 1. 'The realm of living speech': Conrad and oral community. 2. 'Murder by language': 'Falk' and Victory. 3. 'Drawing-room voices': language and space in The Arrow of Gold -- part II. Marlow. 4. Modernist storytelling: 'Youth' and 'Heart of Darkness'. 5. The scandals of Lord Jim. 6. The gender of Chance -- part III. Political Communities. 7. Nostromo and anecdotal history. 8. Linguistic dystopia: The Secret Agent. 9. 'Gossip tales, suspicions': language and paranoia in Under Western Eyes. |
| Summary |
"In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. A trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel; tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. He sought very early on to develop a 'writing of the voice' based on oral or communal modes of storytelling. Greaney argues that the 'yarns' of his nautical raconteur Marlow are the most challenging expression of this voice-centred aesthetic. But Conrad's suspicion that words are fundamentally untrustworthy is present in everything he wrote. |
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The political novels of his middle period represent a breakthrough from traditional storytelling into the writerly aesthetic of high modernism. Greaney offers an examination of a wide range of Conrad's work which combines recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory."--Jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Language.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Technique.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. (OCoLC)fst00035252
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Conrad, Joseph.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Fiction -- Technique. (OCoLC)fst00923755
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Language and languages. (OCoLC)fst00992154
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Narration (Rhetoric) (OCoLC)fst01032927
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Technique. (OCoLC)fst01355129
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Vertelkunst.
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Literaire taal.
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Sprache <Motiv>.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Greaney, Michael. Conrad, language, and narrative. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521807549 (DLC) 2001035601 (OCoLC)46951506 |
| ISBN |
0511018452 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511018459 (electronic bk.) |
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0511119879 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511119873 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511485107 (electronic bk.) |
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0511485107 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511044489 (electronic bk.) |
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0511044488 (electronic bk.) |
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