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Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion
Irene Kacandes
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Description for Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion
Paperback. Everywhere you turn today, someone is talking to you - the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone. This book reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 285 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 397.
Everywhere you turn today, someone (or something) is talking to you—the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone, and you're not mistaken. In this innovative, multidisciplinary work, Irene Kacandes reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture. Within a framework of talk as interaction, Kacandes considers texts that can be classified as "statements," that is, texts that wholly or in part ask for their readers to react— to talk back—to them ... Read more
Everywhere you turn today, someone (or something) is talking to you—the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone, and you're not mistaken. In this innovative, multidisciplinary work, Irene Kacandes reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture. Within a framework of talk as interaction, Kacandes considers texts that can be classified as "statements," that is, texts that wholly or in part ask for their readers to react— to talk back—to them ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Series
Frontiers of Narrative
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803278011
SKU
V9780803278011
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About Irene Kacandes
Irene Kacandes is an associate professor of German studies and comparative literature at Dartmouth College.
Reviews for Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion
"In this engaging book, Kacandes (German studies and comparative literature, Dartmouth) tries to enlarge understanding of the rhetoric of fiction by creating a new category: talk fiction. . . . Kacandes has done a good service, in clear English, in calling readers back to rhetorical categories that make up fiction."—Choice