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Dialogue and literature : apostrophe, auditors, and the collapse of romantic discourse / Michael Macovski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macovski, Michael Steven.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Discourse analysis, Literary.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Dialogue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Extending and reframing the works of Bakhtin, Gadamer, Ong, and Foucault--with particular emphasis on Bakhtin's late essays --Macovski constructs a theoretical model of literary dialogue and applies it to a range of Romantic texts. In reconsidering specific works within the context of culturalheuristics, rhetorical theory, and literary history, Macovski redefines Romantic discourse as both extratextual and agonistic. He thereby re-evaluates such Romantic topics as the history of the autotelic self, the proliferation of lyric orality, and the nineteenth-century critique of rhetoric. Heexamines
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; I: Romantic Formalism and the Specular Lyric; 1. Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Authority: Toward a Theory of Romantic Dialogue; 2. ""The Language of My Former Heart"": Wordsworth, Bakhtin, and the Diachronic Dialogue; 3. Coleridge, the ""Rime,"" and the Instantiation of Outness; II: The Novel All Told: Audition, Orality, and the Collapse of Dialogue; 4. Three Blind Mariners and a Monster: Frankenstein as Vocative Text; 5. Wuthering Heights and the Rhetoric of Interpretation; 6. The Heartbeat of Darkness: Listening in(to) the Twentieth Century
- 7. Conclusion: Dialogue, Culture, and the Heuristic ""Third""Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4294-0543-0
- 1-280-52578-9
- 0-19-534500-2
- OCLC:
- 191952806
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