Conrad, language, and narrative /

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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 ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Greaney, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Language.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Technique.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924 > Langue.
Conrad, Joseph, > 1857-1924
Conrad, Joseph.
Fiction > Technique.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Roman > Technique.
Narration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Fiction > Technique
Language and languages
Technique
Sprache > Motiv
Vertelkunst.
Literaire taal.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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