Baxter, Katherine and Hampson, Robert (2016) Conrad and Language. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474403764
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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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | Q200 Comparative Literary studies Q300 English studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
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| Depositing User: | Katherine Baxter |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2016 13:49 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2017 08:27 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/27730 |
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