TY - GEN T1 - Fictional dialogue : speech and conversation in the modern and postmodern novel T2 - Frontiers of narrative. A1 - Thomas, Bronwen LA - English PP - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn792742060 AB - "Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gerard 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- and twenty-first-century novels by focusing on extended extracts and sequences of utterances. It also examines how different versions of dialogue may help to normalize or idealize certain patterns and practices, thereby excluding alternative possibilities or eliding "unevenness" and differences. Bronwen Thomas, by bringing together theories and models of fictional dialogue from a wide range of disciplines and intellectual traditions, shows how the subject raises profound questions concerning our understanding of narrative and human communication. The first study of its kind to combine literary and narratological analysis with reference to linguistic terms and models, Bakhtinian theory, cultural history, media theory, and cognitive approaches, this book is also the first to focus in depth on the dialogue novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and to bring together examples of dialogue from literature, popular fiction, and nonlinear narratives. Beyond critiquing existing methods of analysis, it outlines a promising new method for analyzing fictional dialogue."-- OP - 212 CN - PS374.D43 T46 2012eb SN - 9780803240315 SN - 0803240317 SN - 9780803244511 SN - 0803244517 KW - American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - English fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Dialogue in literature. KW - Conversation in literature. KW - Dialogism (Literary analysis) KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Roman américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Roman anglais : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Dialogue dans la littérature. KW - Conversation dans la littérature. KW - Dialogisme. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - Postmodernisme (Littérature) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - American fiction KW - Conversation in literature KW - Dialogue in literature KW - English fiction KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -