Conrad and Language

ISBN-13: 9781474425575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str.

Katherine Isobel Baxter; Robert Hampson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

A Note on Texts; Conrad and Language: Introduction, Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson; Conrad and Maritime Language: Flying Moors and Crimson Barometers, Robert Hampson; ‘I have something in hand that shall strike terror into the heart of these gorged brutes’: The Many Meanings of Terror in Conrad’s Fiction, Andrew Glazzard; Conrad, George Moore and the Critique of Abstract Language, John Attridge; Conrad´s Language of Passivity: Unmoving towards Late Modernism, Yael Levin; The Powers of Speech in Conrad’s Fiction, Josiane Paccaud-Huguet; ‘Soundless as Shadows’: Language and Disability in the Political Novels, Katherine Isobel Baxter; Joseph Conrad and Romanized Print Form: from Tuan Almayer to Prince Roman, Chris GoGwilt; Languages in Conrad’s Malay Fiction, Andrew Francis; Gallicisms: The Secret Agent in Conrad’s Prose, Claude Masionnat; ‘The speech of my secret choice’: Conrad and English, Andrew Purssell; Recent Russian Translations of Under Western Eyes and The Secret Agent, Ludmilla Voitkovska; Afterword, Laurence Davies.