Conrad Language and Narrative

In This Re-Evaluation Of The Writings Of Joseph Conrad Michael Greaney Places Language And Narrative At The Heart Of His Literary Achievement. As A Trilingual Polish Expatriate Conrad Brought A Formidable Linguistic Self-Consciousness To The English Novel And Tensions Between Speech And Writing Are The Defining Obsessions Of His Career. Greaney Examines A Wide Range Of Conrad''S Work Combining Recent Critical Approaches To Language In Post-Structuralism With An Impressive Command Of Linguistic Theory.