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Author Greaney, Michael.

Title Conrad, language, and narrative / Michael Greaney.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography 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 -- pt. II. Marlow. 4. Modernist storytelling: 'Youth' and 'Heart of Darkness'. 5. The scandals of Lord Jim. 6. The gender of Chance -- pt. 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.
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.
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Subject Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Language.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Technique.
Technique.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Langue.
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Technique.
Conrad, Joseph.
Fiction -- Technique.
Fiction -- Technique.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Greaney, Michael. Conrad, language, and narrative. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521807549 (DLC) 2001035601 (OCoLC)46951506
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