Conrad, language, and narrative / / Michael Greaney [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Greaney Michael
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| Titolo: |
Conrad, language, and narrative / / Michael Greaney [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.912 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fiction - Technique |
| Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century | |
| 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 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Conrad, Language, & Narrative |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Conrad, language, and narrative |
| 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 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780286703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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