| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) |
| Contents |
Textual voices, vocative texts: dialogue, linguistics, and critical discourse / Michael Macovski -- Narrative transmission : shifting gears in Shelley's "Ozymandias" / Timothy R. Austin -- The power of speech : dialogue as history in the Russian Primary chronicle / Rachel May -- Crossroads to community : Jude the obscure and the chronotype of Wessex / John P. Farrell -- Dialogue in lyric narrative / Paul Friedrich -- Dialogics of the lyric : a symposium on Wordsworth's "Westminster Bridge" and "Beauteous evening" / Don H. Bialostosky -- Involvement as dialogue : linguistic theory and the relation between conversational and literary discourse / Deborah Tannen -- "The bard I quote from" : Byron, Bakhtin, and the appropriation of voices / Michael Macovski -- Marxism, Romanticism, and postmodernism : an American case history / Anne Mack and Jay Rome -- The essay in English : readers and writers in dialogue / Shirley Brice Heath -- Bakhtin and beautiful science : the paradox of cultural relativity revisited / Michael Holquist -- Conversation as dialogue / John R. Searle -- Extracts from a Heteroglossary / Gary Saul Morson with Caryl Emerson |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary volume of collected, unpublished essays demonstrates the importance of the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogic meaning for a wide range of textual problems. The book is organized around three interlocking dimensions of this dialogue: Part I delineates dialogic interactions between voices of a single text; Part II traces such exchanges on an intertextual level; and Part III locates both kinds of exchanges within the dialogue between speakers, authors, and readers. Within this framework, such distinguished scholars as Deborah Tannen, Shirley Brice Heath, and John Searle address questions including rhetorical models for the establishment and exercise of political power, intimacy and understanding in literary speech, polyphonic narrative forms, the relationship between conversational and literary discourse, and the issue of literature as social action. The essays argue for a redefinition of literary meaning - one that is communal, interactive, and vocatively created. They demonstrate that literary meaning is not rendered by a single narrator, nor even by a solitary author, but is incrementally constructed and exchanged |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975
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| SUBJECT |
Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975 fast |
| Subject |
Dialogue analysis.
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Discourse analysis, Literary.
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Criticism
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Oral communication.
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literary criticism.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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Criticism
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Dialogue analysis
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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Oral communication
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Discourse analysis.
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Dialogisme.
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Literatuurkritiek.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Macovski, Michael Steven, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780198024293 |
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0198024290 |
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9780195070637 |
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0195070631 |
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128052586X |
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9781280525865 |
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9780195081244 |
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0195081242 |
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9786610525867 |
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6610525862 |
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