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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



Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
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.

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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781474425575
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 435 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1474425577
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 156 mm


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