Conrad, Language, and Narrative
- Author: Michael Greaney, Lancaster University
- Date Published: October 2009
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- format: Paperback
- 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. 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. 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.
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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- 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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