Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion

by Irene Kacandes

Book Overview

Everywhere you turn today, someone (or something) is talking to you--the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone, and you're not mistaken. In this innovative, multidisciplinary work, Irene Kacandes reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture. Within a framework of talk as interaction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803278012
• ISBN13: 9780803278011
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.0"