Elliptical Orality: Rhetoric as Style in Conrad

This essay links two concurrent literary trends that unfolded in Britain between the 1850s and 1890s: a turn in novelistic practice against the convention of the chatty, rhetorical author, and a new critical enthusiasm for theorizations of prose style. In these decades, a new concept of style emerged in which the author's persona was abstracted and diffused into the intimate details of composition. This understanding of style was incompatible with an earlier sense of the author as a rhetorical, speaking presence in the text. Style and narrative, then, are not separable or opposable terms; rather, style's historical dispensations are inextricable from the history of narrative forms. By tracking the oral aesthetic of Joseph Conrad's early work, this paper traces the ways in which the markers of orality and rhetoric were repurposed into the intricate, telling details of style.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Harris, Lech

Đề mục:

English literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Indiana University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Winter 2019

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.61.2.08

Nguồn gốc:

Victorian studies, Volume 61, Number 2, Winter 2019, Pages 240-247

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ISSN 0042-5222

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