Dialogue

by Peter Womack

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 the history of dialogue form, looking at Platonic, Renaissance, Enlightenment and Modern examples illustrates the play of dialogue in the many voices of the novel, and considers how dialogue works on the stage interprets the influential dialogic theories of Mikhail Bakhtin examines the idea that literary study itself consists of a dialogue with the past presents a useful glossary and further reading section.Practical and thought-provoking, this volume is the ideal starting-point for the exploration of this diverse and fascinating literary form.

164 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 22, 2011

About the author

Peter Womack is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia. He is the co-author of English Drama: A Cultural History (Blackwell Publishing, 1996), and the author of Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands (1989) and Ben Jonson (Blackwell Publishing, 1986).

Reviews

[Mona · Rating 4 out of 5]

دیالوگ، شیوه‌ای از زندگی انسانی و یکدلانه است بی آنکه آن تناقض‌ها حل شده باشند.
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ترجمه خوب بود، مطالب خوبی هم کنار همدیگه قرار گرفته بود.

[Harry Fulgencio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now i know how to create a dialogue in an essay. I got a bit confused when some issues about dialogue has been philosophized. "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there" (Hartley, 1958) "A good dialogue: producing the illusions that characters are the origin of what they say" (Archer, 1926)