The Resource Coercion to Speak : Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue, Aaron Fogel, (electronic resource)
Coercion to Speak : Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue, Aaron Fogel, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- Novelists have individually distinctive ideas of dialogue, Aaron Fogel argues. In this analysis of Conrad's narrative craft he explores--with broad implications--the theory and uses of dialogue. Conrad's was a distinctive reading of the English language conditioned by his particular idea of forced speech and forced writing. Fogel shows how Conrad shaped ideas and events and interpreted character and institutions by means of dialogues representing not free exchange but various forms of forcing another to respond. He applied this format not only to the obvious political contexts, such as inquisition or spying, but also to seemingly more private relations, such as marriage, commerce, and storytelling. His idea of dialogue shaded the meanings he gave to words even to characters' names. Conrad is particularly interested in scenes in which a speech-forcer is surprised, repudiated, or punished. Fogel concludes that Conrad increasingly saw the punishment of the speech-forcer as classically related to Oedipus inquiries, in which the provoked answers rebound upon and destroy the forcer. This punishment is--as Shakespeare, Scott, and Wordsworth also dramatically intuited--the classical Oedipal dialogue scene. Fogel's analysis ranges widely over Conrad's fiction but focuses especially on Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes. His readings offer a balanced critique of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories about dialogic. Conrad's novels have many of the features Bakhtin identified as dialogical; but he was preoccupied with coercion in dialogue form. Fogel proposes that to understand this form is to begin to reconsider our political and aesthetic assumptions about what dialogue is or ought to be
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Edition
- Reprint 2013
- Extent
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Contents
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- VI. Oedipus: The Punishment of the Speech-Forcer
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- I. Ideas of Dialogue and Conrad's Forced Dialogue
- II. Dialogue and Labor
- III. Silver and Silence: Dependent Currencies in Nostromo
- IV. The Fragmentation of Sympathy in The Secret Agent
- V. The Anti-Conversational Novel: Under Western Eyes
- Isbn
- 9780674334212
- Label
- Coercion to Speak : Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue
- Title
- Coercion to Speak
- Title remainder
- Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue
- Statement of responsibility
- Aaron Fogel
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Summary
- Novelists have individually distinctive ideas of dialogue, Aaron Fogel argues. In this analysis of Conrad's narrative craft he explores--with broad implications--the theory and uses of dialogue. Conrad's was a distinctive reading of the English language conditioned by his particular idea of forced speech and forced writing. Fogel shows how Conrad shaped ideas and events and interpreted character and institutions by means of dialogues representing not free exchange but various forms of forcing another to respond. He applied this format not only to the obvious political contexts, such as inquisition or spying, but also to seemingly more private relations, such as marriage, commerce, and storytelling. His idea of dialogue shaded the meanings he gave to words even to characters' names. Conrad is particularly interested in scenes in which a speech-forcer is surprised, repudiated, or punished. Fogel concludes that Conrad increasingly saw the punishment of the speech-forcer as classically related to Oedipus inquiries, in which the provoked answers rebound upon and destroy the forcer. This punishment is--as Shakespeare, Scott, and Wordsworth also dramatically intuited--the classical Oedipal dialogue scene. Fogel's analysis ranges widely over Conrad's fiction but focuses especially on Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes. His readings offer a balanced critique of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories about dialogic. Conrad's novels have many of the features Bakhtin identified as dialogical; but he was preoccupied with coercion in dialogue form. Fogel proposes that to understand this form is to begin to reconsider our political and aesthetic assumptions about what dialogue is or ought to be
- Cataloging source
- DE-B1597
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fogel, Aaron
- Government publication
- other
- Language note
- In English
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dialogue
- Englische Literatur
- Literature
- Speech in literature
- Speech
- Technique
- Target audience
- specialized
- Label
- Coercion to Speak : Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue, Aaron Fogel, (electronic resource)
- Contents
-
- VI. Oedipus: The Punishment of the Speech-Forcer
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- I. Ideas of Dialogue and Conrad's Forced Dialogue
- II. Dialogue and Labor
- III. Silver and Silence: Dependent Currencies in Nostromo
- IV. The Fragmentation of Sympathy in The Secret Agent
- V. The Anti-Conversational Novel: Under Western Eyes
- Control code
- ssj0001121091
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Reprint 2013
- Extent
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780674334212
- Other control number
- 10.4159/harvard.9780674334212
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssj0001121091
- System details
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
- Label
- Coercion to Speak : Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue, Aaron Fogel, (electronic resource)
- Contents
-
- VI. Oedipus: The Punishment of the Speech-Forcer
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- I. Ideas of Dialogue and Conrad's Forced Dialogue
- II. Dialogue and Labor
- III. Silver and Silence: Dependent Currencies in Nostromo
- IV. The Fragmentation of Sympathy in The Secret Agent
- V. The Anti-Conversational Novel: Under Western Eyes
- Control code
- ssj0001121091
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Reprint 2013
- Extent
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780674334212
- Other control number
- 10.4159/harvard.9780674334212
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssj0001121091
- System details
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
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