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Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel

Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel

Thomas, Bronwen

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Series: Frontiers of Narrative

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0803244517
ISBN13: 9780803244511
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: May 1 2012
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gérard 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 focusing on extended extracts and sequences of utterances. It also examines how different versions of dialogue may help to normalize or idealize certain patterns and practices, thereby excluding alternative possibilities or eliding unevenness and differences.

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