Coercion to Speak : : Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue / / Aaron Fogel.

Novelists have individually distinctive ideas of dialogue, Aaron Fogel argues. In this analysis of Conrad's narrative craft he explores--with broad implications--the theory and uses of dialogue. Conrad's was a distinctive reading of the English language conditioned by his particular idea o...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1985
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • I. Ideas of Dialogue and Conrad's Forced Dialogue
  • II. Dialogue and Labor
  • III. Silver and Silence: Dependent Currencies in Nostromo
  • IV. The Fragmentation of Sympathy in The Secret Agent
  • V. The Anti-Conversational Novel: Under Western Eyes
  • VI. Oedipus: The Punishment of the Speech-Forcer
  • Notes
  • Index