Conrad and Language

ISBN-13: 9781474403764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 232 str.

Baxter; Dr Katherine Isobel Baxter; Robert Hampson

Opis

Joseph 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 fiction.
The essays in this collection examine his 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 - his deployment of foreign languages, his decision to write in English, and his reception through translation. The collection closes with an Afterword by renowned Conrad scholar, Laurence Davies.

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.