Fictional dialogue : speech and conversation in the modern and postmodern novel

Fictional dialogue : speech and conversation in the modern and postmodern novel / Bronwen Thomas.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Bronwen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Series:Frontiers of narrative.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Dialogue in literature.
Conversation in literature.
Dialogism (Literary analysis)
Modernism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American fiction
Conversation in literature
Dialogue in literature
English fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Theory; 1. Debates about Realism; 2. The "Idea of Dialogue"; Part II. Narrative Cornerstones; 3. Speech, Character, and Intention; 4. Dialogue in Action; 5. Framing; Part III. Genre and Medium; 6. Dialogue and Genre; 7. The Alibi of Interaction: Dialogue and New Technologies; 8. Stuck in a Loop? Dialogue in Hypertext Fiction; Conclusion.

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