| Dramatic Monologue Contributor(s): Byron, Glennis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415229375 ISBN-13: 9780415229371 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: This refreshingly clear guide provides students with a compact introduction to this key topic in literary studies. Although most often associated with Victorian poets such as Browning, dramatic monologue has a long literary and cultural history. "Dramatic" "Monologue": *unravels the history of the genre, from the poems of Donne, to today's stand-up comic routines *presents a history of definitions of the term *explores issues at play in our understanding of the genre, such as subjectivity, gender and politics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.02 |
| LCCN: 2002155683 |
| Series: New Critical Idiom |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.12" W x 7.94" (0.45 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century. Glennis Byron unravels its history and argues that, contrary to belief, the monologue remains popular to this day. This far-reaching and neatly structured volume: * explores the origins of the monologue and presents a history of definitions of the term Taking as example the increasingly politicized nature of contemporary poetry, the author clearly and succinctly presents an account of the monologue's growing popularity over the past twenty years. |