Fictional dialogue : speech and conversation in the modern and postmodern novel /

"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...

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Main Author: Thomas, Bronwen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Series:Frontiers of narrative.
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