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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.

Conrad, Joseph, --- Conrad, Józef, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the twentieth century — Conrad, Weiss and Sebald — it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when literary narratives meet a readership with a heterogeneous historical imaginary. In conversation with reception theory, trauma theory and transnational and postcolonial studies, the study shows how historical pressures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries require comparative literature to address not only implied but also various unimplied reading positions that engage history in displaced yet material ways. This book opens new analytical paths for thinking about literary texts as media of historical imagination and conceiving relations between incommensurable historical events and contexts. Challenging overly global and overly local readings alike, the book presents a sophisticated contribution to discussions on how to reform the discipline of comparative literature in the twenty-first century.

Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- European literature. --- European Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- 20th century. --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Weiss, Peter, --- Sebald, W. G. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- European literature --- Literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- History and criticism --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Vais, Peter, --- Veĭs, Peter, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century.