Conrad, language, and narrative /
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 impr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| ISBN: | 0511018452 9780511018459 0511119879 9780511119873 9780521807548 0521807549 9780511485107 0511485107 9780511044489 0511044488 1107124573 9781107124578 0521120845 9780521120845 0511303831 9780511303838 0511155263 9780511155260 1280162392 9781280162398 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.