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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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Coercion to Speak : Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue
Title
Coercion to Speak
Title remainder
Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue
Statement of responsibility
Aaron Fogel
Creator
Subject
Language
  • 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
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Cataloging source
DE-B1597
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Fogel, Aaron
Government publication
other
Language note
In English
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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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)
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Publication
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)
Publication
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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