| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
speech and conversationin the modern and postmodern novel |
| Author: |
ThomasBronwen, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Lincoln |
| Published: |
University of Nebraska Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 212 p.). |
| Series: |
Frontiers of narrative |
| Subject: |
Postmodernism (Literature) - |
| Subject: |
Modernism (Literature) - |
| Subject: |
Dialogism (Literary analysis) - |
| Subject: |
Conversation in literature - |
| Subject: |
Dialogue in literature - |
| Subject: |
English fiction - History and criticism - 20th century - |
| Subject: |
American fiction - History and criticism - 20st century - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803240315/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Summary: |
"Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gerard Genette as "one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel." Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon little acknowledged or explored in the critical literature. Fictional Dialogue demonstrates the richness and versatility of dialogue as a narrative technique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by focusingon extended extracts and sequences of utterances. It also examines howdifferent versions of dialogue may help to normalize or idealize certain patterns and practices, thereby excluding alternative possibilities or eliding "unevenness" and differences. Bronwen Thomas, by bringing together theories and models of fictional dialogue from a wide range of disciplines and intellectual traditions, shows how the subject raises profound questions concerning our understanding of narrative and human communication. The first study of its kind to combine literary and narratological analysis with reference to linguistic terms and models, Bakhtinian theory, cultural history, media theory, and cognitive approaches, this book is also the first to focus in depth on the dialogue novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and to bring together examplesof dialogue from literature, popular fiction, andnonlinear narratives. Beyond critiquing existing methods of analysis, it outlines a promising new method for analyzing fictional dialogue"-- |
| ISBN: |
9780803240315electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0803240317electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780803244511hbk. |