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Conrad and language / edited by Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baxter, Katherine Isobel, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Language.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Conrad & Language
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- The essays in this collection examine Conrad's engagement with specific lexical sets and terminology - maritime language, the language of terror, and abstract language; issues of linguistic communication - speech, hearing, and writing; and his relationship to specific languages.
- 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
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-0377-8
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