Conrad and Language, Paperback by Baxter, Katherine Isobel (EDT); Hampson, Ro...
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Conrad and Language, Paperback by Baxter, Katherine Isobel (EDT); Hampson, Ro.... 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. Conrad and Language, Paperback by Baxter, Katherine Isobel (EDT); Hampson, Robert (EDT), ISBN 1474425577, ISBN-13 9781474425575, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
