03511nam 22006492 450 991078028670332120151005020621.01-107-12457-30-521-12084-50-511-30383-10-511-15526-30-511-11987-91-280-16239-20-511-04448-80-511-48510-7(CKB)111082128284842(EBL)202233(OCoLC)437063465(SSID)ssj0000128925(PQKBManifestationID)11152792(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128925(PQKBWorkID)10070258(PQKB)10624973(UkCbUP)CR9780511485107(MiAaPQ)EBC202233(Au-PeEL)EBL202233(CaPaEBR)ebr10001883(CaONFJC)MIL16239(EXLCZ)9911108212828484220090226d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConrad, language, and narrative /Michael Greaney[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-80754-9 0-511-01845-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.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.Conrad, Language, & NarrativeFictionTechniqueNarration (Rhetoric)History20th centuryFictionTechnique.Narration (Rhetoric)History823/.912Greaney Michael1000332UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910780286703321Conrad, language, and narrative3816245UNINA