Michael Greaney

Conrad, Language, and Narrative (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511029196
• Artikelnr.: 38183460

Autorenporträt

Michael Greaney is Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University. This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 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
Part II. Marlow: 4. Modernist storytelling: 'Youth' and 'Heart of Darkness'
5. The scandals of Lord Jim
6. The gender of Chance
Part 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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.