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Conrad, Language, and Narrative (Paperback)
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Conrad, Language, and Narrative (Paperback)
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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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