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Dramatic monologue /
The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century. Glennis Byron unravels its history and argues that, contrary to belief, the monol...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Series: | New critical idiom.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Definitions; Setting the terms of the debate; Poet and speaker; Reader and auditor; Character and subject; Changes in the canon; 3 Origins; The influence of genre theory; Reacting to the Romantics; Contemporary theories of poetry; Self in the broader context; An alternative theory; 4 Men and women; Women's voices; The critique of gender ideology; Men's voices; The gendered dynamics of self and other; Cross-gendered monologues; The monologue in dialogue; 5 Victorian developments.
- The question of styleThe historical consciousness; Questions of epistemology; Social critique; 6 Modernism and its aftermath; The decline of the genre?; An alternative view; Sixties revival; 7 Contemporary dramatic monologues; The dramatic monologue and society; Revisionist dramatic monologues; Dramatic monologues and the media; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.