Conrad And 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.

• | Author: Baxter, Robert Hampson
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 29, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 147440376X
• | ISBN-13: 9781474403764