Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction: THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
Autor Elizabeth Alsopen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mar 2022
Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction examines the role of character dialogue in key works of Anglo-American modernism. Through close analysis of texts including The Ambassadors, The Sun Also Rises, “The Dead,” The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, The Waves, Between the Acts, “Melanctha,” and Cane, the book documents the ways in which some of the most canonical British and American modernist authors transformed the conventions traditionally used to render talk in fiction.
If historically dialogue had been treated as a subordinate element in fiction—a tool for developing character or advancing plot—this book demonstrates that writers such as Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein would increasingly emphasize it as a poetic structure in its own right. In this way, Alsop argues, modernist writers “make” conversation in radically new ways and for a diverse range of expressive and communicative ends. Over the course of five chapters that explore this previously overlooked avenue of modernist innovation, Making Conversation offers readers a radical new paradigm not only for understanding fictional talk but also for interpreting some of the most celebrated examples of early twentieth-century narrative.
If historically dialogue had been treated as a subordinate element in fiction—a tool for developing character or advancing plot—this book demonstrates that writers such as Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein would increasingly emphasize it as a poetic structure in its own right. In this way, Alsop argues, modernist writers “make” conversation in radically new ways and for a diverse range of expressive and communicative ends. Over the course of five chapters that explore this previously overlooked avenue of modernist innovation, Making Conversation offers readers a radical new paradigm not only for understanding fictional talk but also for interpreting some of the most celebrated examples of early twentieth-century narrative.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814255490
ISBN-10: 0814255493
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
ISBN-10: 0814255493
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
Recenzii
“Making Conversation is set to become essential reading for narratologists and others concerned with the complex and changing role of dialogue in fiction. Carefully argued, with theoretical claims backed up by convincing textual analyses, it is a groundbreaking work and a real pleasure to read.” —Jeremy Hawthorn
“Making Conversation is a work of serious, substantive, and significant scholarship that promises to change how we think about dialogue and talk in the modernist novel.” —Janine Utell
Notă biografică
Elizabeth Alsop is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies and Communication and Media at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Modernism and the Poetics of Talk
Chapter 1
Dialogue and Its Discontents
Chapter 2
The Consensual Voice: Fantasies of Reciprocity in James and Hemingway
Chapter 3
The Exceptional Voice: Joyce, Faulkner, and the Dream of Autonomy
Chapter 4
The Paradoxical Voice: Faulkner and Woolf’s Implausible Speech
Chapter 5
The Choral Voice: Woolf and Stein’s Democratized Talk
Conclusion
What Is the Dialogue Doing Now?
Works Cited
Introduction
Modernism and the Poetics of Talk
Chapter 1
Dialogue and Its Discontents
Chapter 2
The Consensual Voice: Fantasies of Reciprocity in James and Hemingway
Chapter 3
The Exceptional Voice: Joyce, Faulkner, and the Dream of Autonomy
Chapter 4
The Paradoxical Voice: Faulkner and Woolf’s Implausible Speech
Chapter 5
The Choral Voice: Woolf and Stein’s Democratized Talk
Conclusion
What Is the Dialogue Doing Now?
Works Cited
Descriere
Uncovers the diversified role dialogue played in early twentieth-century fiction.