Conrad, Language, and Narrative
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- Author: Michael Greaney, Lancaster University
- Date Published: October 2009
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- isbn: 9780521120845
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In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. As a trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel and tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. Greaney examines a wide range of Conrad's work, combining recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.
Read more- Wide-ranging treatment of Conrad's texts
- The style of writing is lucid, engaging and jargon free
- The study deploys key concepts from literary theory in an accessible way
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"...challenges old assumptions and engages current controversies in revelatory and rich close readings." Andrea White, California State University at Dominguez Hills, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
See more reviews"...a valuable, original, and compellingly written study that will rapidly prove to be an indispensable volume of Conrad criticism." Studies in the Novel
"Given the impressive bibliography and the undeviating argument, this book may best be used as a supplement in teaching college students to read Conrad intelligently. Recommended." Choice
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- Date Published: October 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521120845
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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