|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910780286703321 |
|
|
Autore |
Greaney Michael |
|
|
Titolo |
Conrad, language, and narrative / / Michael Greaney [[electronic resource]] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Fiction - Technique |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
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 |
|
|
|
|