Title: Proust and Joyce in dialogue
First published: 2008
Description: "It might reasonably be asked what the connection is between Francoise's malapropisms in Proust and the erudite allusions of Stephen's interior monologue in Joyce. Tribout-Joseph argues that they are indeed interrelated. Proust and Joyce are exemplary of Modernism's reconciliation of high literature with popular voices. Both writers explore the process of incorporation, the interface between speech and narrative. Fragments of discourse are taken from diverse sources and reoriented within new contexts. Proposed here are interconnected close readings of socio-political debate, body talk, listening processes, silences, intertextual echoes, cliche, register, conflated voices, chatter, gossip, eavesdropping, internalized debate, and misunderstandings which allow for a new configuration of the authors to emerge."--Jacket.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Dialogue in literature, French literature, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, French, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, General
LC classification: PQ2631.R63 Z953 2008