Dialogue is a form that's been used in varying ways at different cultural moments, adapting to the needs of the time and of its speakers. Peter Womack considers the history of the dialogue form, illustrates the use of dialogue in the many 'voices' of the novel, and considers the…
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…
"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', disturbin…