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Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction examines the role of character dialogue in key works of Anglo-American modernism. Through close analysis of texts including  The Ambassadors, The Sun Also Rises, “The Dead,”  The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, The Waves, Between the Acts, “Melanctha,” and  Cane, the book documents the ways in which some of the most canonical British and American modernist authors transformed the conventions traditionally used to render talk in fiction. If historically dialogue had been treated as a subordinate element in fiction—a tool for developing character or advancing plot—this book demonstrates that writers such as Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein would increasingly emphasize it as a poetic structure in its own right. In this way, Alsop argues, modernist writers “make” conversation in radically new ways and for a diverse range of expressive and communicative ends. Over the course of five chapters that explore this previously overlooked avenue of modernist innovation,  Making Conversation  offers readers a radical new paradigm not only for understanding fictional talk but a

Author

Elizabeth Alsop;

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press; Ohio State University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814277263

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction