Conrad and Language /

Conrad and Language / / Katherine Isobel Baxter, Robert Hampson.

Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with languageJoseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English, and was also familiar with German, Russian, Dutch and Malay. He was also a consummate stylist, using words with the precision of a poet in his fict...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Baxter, Katherine Isobel,
Hampson, Robert,
MitwirkendeR:
Attridge, John,
Baxter, Katherine Isobel,
Davies, Laurence,
Francis, Andrew,
Glazzard, Andrew,
GoGwilt, Christopher,
Hampson, Robert,
Levin, Yael,
Maisonnat, Claude,
Paccaud-Huguet, Josiane,
Purssell, Andrew,
Voitkovska, Ludmilla,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Texts
  • Introduction
  • 1 Conrad and Nautical Language: Flying Moors and Crimson Barometers
  • 2 Navigating the 'Terroristic Wilderness': Conrad's Language of Terror
  • 3 Conrad, G. E. Moore and Idealism
  • 4 Conrad's Language of Passivity: Unmoving towards Late Modernism
  • 5 The Powers of Speech in Conrad's Fiction
  • 6 'Soundless as Shadows': Language and Disability in the Political Novels
  • 7 Conrad and Romanised Print Form: From Tuan Almayer to 'Prince Roman'
  • 8 Languages in Conrad's Malay Fiction
  • 9 Gallicisms: The Secret Agent in Conrad's Prose
  • 10 'The speech of my secret choice': Language and Authorial Identity in A Personal Record
  • 11 The Russian Redemption of The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes
  • Afterword
  • Contributors
  • Index

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