Dialogue (the new critical idiom)

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. –back Cover. The Genre : Platonic Dialogue ; Renaissance Dialogue ; Enlightenment Dialogue ; Modern Dialogue — Dialogue In The Novel : Inverted Commas ; Dialogic Language ; Dialogue Into Novel ; The Dialogue Of Languages ; The Ideology Of Dialogue — Dialogue In Drama : Bakhtin On Drama ; Pure Drama ; Dialogue As Illusion ; Dialogue As Action ; Impurities Of The Theatre ; Epic Theatre — Dialogue In Literary Studies : The Go-between ; Understanding As Dialogue ; Tradition And The Individual Talent ; The Lives Of Others ; Getting Into Conversation. Peter Womack. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.