CONRAD, LANGUAGE, AND NARRATIVE by Greaney, Michael ISBN 0521807549
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[edit] CONRAD, LANGUAGE, AND NARRATIVE
Michael Greaney examines the place of language and narrative in the writings of Joseph Conrad.
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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[edit] Title
CONRAD, LANGUAGE, AND NARRATIVE
[edit] Author
Greaney, Michael
[edit] ISBN
0521807549
[edit] Published
15/11/2001
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
45 (GBP)
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