Making conversation in modernist fiction /

Making conversation in modernist fiction /

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alsop, Elizabeth (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
Series:	Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
Subjects:	1900-1999 American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Dialogue in literature. Conversation in literature. Modernism (Literature) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of 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.