Making conversation in modernist fiction
By: Elizabeth Alsop
Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative; Theory and interpretation of narrative series
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press; Ohio State University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780814214077; 9780814277263
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: American fiction; History and criticism; English fiction; Dialogue in literature; Conversation in literature; Modernism (Literature)
Description: "Analyzes the function of dialogue in early twentieth-century novels and discusses works by Henry James, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dialogue and its discontents; title: The consensual voice: fantasies of reciprocity in James and Hemingway; title: The exceptional voice: Joyce, Faulkner, and the dream of autonomy; title: The paradoxical voice: Faulkner's and Woolf's implausible speech; title: The choral voice: Woolf's and Stein's democratized talk; title: Conclusion: What is the dialogue doing now?.