Dialogue Revised Edition Contributor(s): Womack, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415329221 ISBN-13: 9780415329224 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics - Literary Criticism |
Dewey: 401.43 |
LCCN: 2010046804 |
Series: New Critical Idiom |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.45 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Dialogue is a many-sided critical concept; at once an ancient philosophical genre, a formal component of fiction and drama, a model for the relationship of writer and reader, and a theoretical key to the nature of language. In all its forms, it questions 'literature', disturbing the singleness and fixity of the written text with the fluid interactivity of conversation. In this clear and concise guide to the multiple significance of the term, Peter Womack:
Practical and thought-provoking, this volume is the ideal starting-point for the exploration of this diverse and fascinating literary form. |