Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Conrad and Language

Av Katherine Isobel Baxter, Robert Hampson

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Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad’s complex relationship with languageJoseph 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 FeaturesThe 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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Utgivningsdatum: 2016-06-29
Mått: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt: 508 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 232
Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474403764

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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 Emeritus at Royal Holloway, University of London. His many publications include the monographs, Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (1992), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction (2000), Conrad’s Secrets (2013), Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism (2024) and the critical biography, Joseph Conrad (2020). He recently co-edited (with Véronique Pauly) The European Reception of Joseph Conrad (2022) and (with Linda Dryden) Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays (2024). Another edited collection, Joseph Conrad and the Arts of His Time, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2026. He was awarded the Ian P. Watt Prize for excellence by the Joseph Conrad Society of America in 2017. He is currently the Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) and a General Editor of The Conradian.

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…in its variety, intelligence, and its representative quality, this is a collection to be recommended to any Conrad scholar.

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