Overview

Werner Senn’s Conrad’s Narrative Voice draws on the methodology of linguistic stylistics and the analysis of narrative discourse to discuss Joseph Conrad’s perception of the role and the limitations of language. Tracing recurrent linguistic patterns allows Senn to demonstrate that Conrad’s view of the radical indeterminacy of the world is conveyed on the most basic levels of the author’s (often criticised) verbal style but permeates his work at all levels of the narrative. Detailed stylistic analysis also reveals the importance, to Conrad, of the spoken word, of oral communication. Senn argues that the narrators’ compulsive efforts to make their readers see and understand reflect Conrad’s ethics of human solidarity in a world he depicts as hostile, enigmatic and often senseless.

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Author:   Werner Senn
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.561kg
ISBN:  

9789004339828

ISBN 10:   9004339825
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   19 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Vocabulary and Language of Fact The Adjectival Style The Adjectival Series 3. Negation, Privation, Absence The “Negative” Adjectives: Range and Types The Deverbal Negative Adjective in Context Negative Elements and Series 4. Sight and Insight Seeing Perception and Cognition: Marlow Epistemology and Point of View: “Typhoon” 5. Physiognomy: Eyes, Faces, Looks Author, Narrator and Character as Physiognomists The Language of Eyes, Faces, and Looks 6. Character Reference Naming and Point of View Names, Appositions, and Substitutions 7. Conjecture, Estrangement, and Distancing The as if-Locution Modification in First Person Narrative Modification in Third Person Narrative Modalization by seem and appear 8. Free Indirect Style Forms and Functions of Free Indirect Style Free Indirect Speech and Thought in Nostromo 9. Conclusion: Narrative Voice Appendix: Tables Bibliography Index

Reviews

Much has happened in Conrad studies in the 36 years since this initial publication, but Conrad's Narrative Voice is a major work of criticism and scholarship that remains essential reading for the student of Conrad's fiction. Those who missed it on its initial publication should make sure that they take advantage of its re-issue. - Jeremy Hawthorn, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) - review, 2017

Author Information

Werner Senn, Ph.D. (1972), University of Berne, was Professor of English Literature at that university from 1984 until his retirement in 2007. He has published monographs on Elizabethan drama and Joseph Conrad and numerous articles on Australian and English literature.

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