Conrad, Language, and Narrative

Conrad, Language, and Narrative
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781139430906
ISBN-13 : 1139430904
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Book Synopsis Conrad, Language, and Narrative by : Michael Greaney

Download or read book Conrad, Language, and Narrative written by Michael Greaney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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