{"product_id":"making-conversation-in-modernist-fiction-9780814214077","title":"Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction","description":"\u003ci\u003eMaking Conversation in Modernist Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the role of character dialogue in key works of Anglo-American modernism. Through close analysis of texts including \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors, The Sun Also Rises, \u003c\/i\u003e\"The Dead,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, The Waves, Between the Acts, \u003c\/i\u003e\"Melanctha,\" and \u003ci\u003eCane, \u003c\/i\u003ethe book documents the ways in which some of the most canonical British and American modernist authors transformed the conventions traditionally used to render talk in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e If historically dialogue had been treated as a subordinate element in fiction-a tool for developing character or advancing plot-this book demonstrates that writers such as Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein would increasingly emphasize it as a poetic structure in its own right. In this way, Alsop argues, modernist writers \"make\" conversation in radically new ways and for a diverse range of expressive and communicative ends. Over the course of five chapters that explore this previously overlooked avenue of modernist innovation, \u003ci\u003eMaking Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers a radical new paradigm not only for understanding fictional talk but also for interpreting some of the most celebrated examples of early twentieth-century narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Alsop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814214077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Alsop is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies and Communication and Media at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40180670070899,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d3d4e9dd-1451-4c62-b6aa-3065c5003def.jpg?v=1655471742","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/making-conversation-in-modernist-fiction-9780814214077","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}