Conrad, language, and narrative

The Resource Conrad, language, and narrative
Label
Conrad, language, and narrative
Statement of responsibility
Michael Greaney
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • "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."--Jacket
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Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
823/.912
Index
index present
LC call number
PR6005.O4
LC item number
Z7355 2002eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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