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Author:
Alsop, Elizabeth, author.
Title:
Making conversation in modernist fiction / Elizabeth Alsop.
Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
ix, 187 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Dialogue in literature.
Conversation in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
American fiction.
Conversation in literature.
Dialogue in literature.
English fiction.
Modernism (Literature)
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.
Contents:
Dialogue and its discontents -- The consensual voice: fantasies of reciprocity in James and Hemingway -- The exceptional voice: Joyce, Faulkner, and the dream of autonomy -- The paradoxical voice: Faulkner's and Woolf's implausible speech -- The choral voice: Woolf's and Stein's democratized talk -- Conclusion: What is the dialogue doing now?.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Theory and interpretation of narrative
ISBN:
081421407X
9780814214077
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1096294053
LCCN:
2019015274
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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