Conrad and Language

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Conrad and Language

Conrad and Language

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Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad’s complex relationship with language 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. Key Features The first academic and critical study wholly devoted to the topic of Conrad and language, and the first to address that topic from a diversity of critical approachesSpeaks to a range of current trends in literary criticism including transnationalism, lateness, translation studies, terrorism and disabilities studiesComprises newly commissioned essays by leading and emerging Conrad scholars from around the world, employing a variety of approaches including philosophy, psychoanalytical theory, biographical theory, as well as textually driven readings
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781474403764
ISBN10 147440376X
Number Of Pages 232
Item Weight 508 g
Publisher / Reseller Edinburgh University Press
Format hardback
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…in its variety, intelligence, and its representative quality, this is a collection to be recommended to any Conrad scholar. -- Hugh Epstein, Joseph Conrad Society (UK) * The Conradian 42:1 *
Joseph Conrad was formed in and through many languages, and in his works a fascination with language serves as a portal through which to explore the profoundest issues of his self and his age. Written by leading Conradians, this is a fascinating, and indispensable, collection for students of Conrad’s writing. -- Jeremy Hawthorn, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

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Author's Bio

Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of 'Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance' (2010) and the co-editor of 'The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts' (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 'Conrad and Language' (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and 'Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts' (2009). She is general editor of the journal 'English'. Robert Hampson is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Joseph Conrad (2020), Conrad’s Secrets (2012), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction (2000) and Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (1992). He is co-editor of The European Reception of Joseph Conrad (2022), Conrad and Language (EUP, 2016), Ford Madox Ford’s Modernity (2003), Ford Madox Ford: A Re-Appraisal (2002), and Conrad and Theory (1998). He is Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), co-editor of The Conradian and on the editorial board of Conradiana and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad.

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