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Dialogue and Literature Apostrophe, Auditors, and the Collapse of Romantic Discourse

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ISBN-10: 019506965X

ISBN-13: 9780195069655

Edition: 1994

Authors: Michael Macovski

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Extending and modifying the works of Bakhtin, Gadamer, Ong, and Foucault - though drawing primarily on Bakhtin's theory of dialogue - Macovski constructs a theoretical model of `dialogic romanticism' and applies it to a range of Romantic texts. Literary discourse is seen as a composite of voices - interactive voices which are not only contained within the literary text but extend beyond it, to other works, authors, interpretations, and discourses. Macovski holds that varieties of dialogic forms and meanings are particularly pronounced during the Romantic epoch, and accordingly traces the manifestations of dialogues within Romantic discourse, beginning with Wordsworth and Coleridge and…    
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List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/12/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.54" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Abbreviations
Romantic Formalism and the Specular Lyric
Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Authority: Toward a Theory of Romantic Dialogue
"The Language of My Former Heart": Wordsworth, Bakhtin, and the Diachronic Dialogue
Coleridge, the "Rime," and the Instantiation of Outness
The Novel All Told: Audition, Orality, and the Collapse of Dialogue
Three Blind Mariners and a Monster: Frankenstein as Vocative Text
Wuthering Heights and the Rhetoric of Interpretation
The Heartbeat of Darkness: Listening in(to) the Twentieth Century
Conclusion: Dialogue, Culture, and the Heuristic "Third,"
Notes
Works Cited
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