Research Catalog

Title

Making conversation in modernist fiction / Elizabeth Alsop.

Author

Alsop, Elizabeth

Publication

• Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Series Statement

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Uniform Title

Theory and interpretation of narrative series.

Subject

• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Dialogue in literature
• Conversation in literature
• Modernism (Literature)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• 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?.

Call Number

JFE 19-11638

ISBN

• 9780814214077
• 081421407X
• 9780814277263 (canceled/invalid)
• 0814277268 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019015274

OCLC

1096294053

Author

Alsop, Elizabeth, author.

Title

Making conversation in modernist fiction / Elizabeth Alsop.

Publisher

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Description

ix, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Theory and interpretation of narrative series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.

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.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11638