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UNINA9910455975503321 |
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Autore |
Greaney Michael |
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Titolo |
Conrad, language, and narrative / / Michael Greaney [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-12457-3 |
0-521-12084-5 |
0-511-30383-1 |
0-511-15526-3 |
0-511-11987-9 |
1-280-16239-2 |
0-511-04448-8 |
0-511-48510-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fiction - Technique |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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