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Conrad's Narrative Voice: Stylistic Aspects of His Fiction -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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