Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel

by Bronwen Thomas

Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by G rard Genette as "one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel." Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon little acknowledged or explored in the critical literature. Fictional Dialogue demonstrates the richness and versatility of dialogue as a narrative technique in twentieth-...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803244517
• ISBN13: 9780803244511
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"