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CONRAD AND LANGUAGE
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Katherine Isobel Baxter (Editor), Robert Hampson (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
147440376X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781474403764 |
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| Publisher: |
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 June, 2016 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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UK |
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Edinburgh University Press |
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