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Conrad, language, and narrative /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Conrad, language, and narrative // Michael Greaney.
remainder title:	Conrad, Language, & Narrative
Author:	Greaney, Michael,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Fiction - Technique. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485107
ISBN:	9780511485107 (ebook)

Conrad, language, and narrative /
Greaney, Michael,

Conrad, language, and narrative /Conrad, Language, & NarrativeMichael Greaney. - 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511485107 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Conrad, Joseph,
1857-1924--Adaptations.Subjects--Topical Terms:

555474
Fiction
--Technique.

LC Class. No.: PR6005.O4 / Z7355 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.912

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