| Description |
1 online resource (x, 125 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: hearing voices -- ch. 1. The voices of narrative, lyric, and drama: The three characteristics of narrative -- Lyric -- Drama -- ch. 2. "Jogona's great treasure": narrative, lyric, and dramatic intelligibility: Intelligibility: Comprehensiveness and cohesion -- Conclusions -- ch. 3. "Intoxicated with intimacy": the lyric voice in John Donne's Holy sonnets: Unruly autobiography -- Donne's Holy sonnets -- Donne's lyric self -- The lyric voice -- ch. 4. "The circle of chalk": narrative voice in Primo Levi's The periodic table: The periodic table -- The aspiration to narrative -- Narrative instability -- "The rich and messy domain" -- ch. 5. "Survival and distance": the dramatic voice in Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach: Einstein on the beach -- Dramatic voice in Einstein -- The dramatic voice and religion -- The dramatic self -- ch. 6. "Harmonized chaos": the mixed voice of Coleridge's Biographia literaria: The biographia literaria -- The form of the Biographia -- Dissociation, fragmentation, and incoherence -- Harmony and unity -- Ramifications: the "mixed" self -- ch. 7. Conclusion: genre and instability |
| Summary |
This work attempts to understand how the concepts of "voice" and "genre" function in texts, especially religious texts. The theory given is applied to five specific literary texts, detailing the ways in which a text constructs a voice, and in the process, a self |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-120) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Donne, John, 1572-1631. Holy sonnets.
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Wilson, Robert, 1941- Einstein on the beach
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Biographia literaria
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Levi, Primo. Sistema periodico
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| SUBJECT |
Holy sonnets (Donne, John) fast |
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Biographia literaria (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor) fast |
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Sistema periodico (Levi, Primo) fast |
| Subject |
Religious literature, English -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Self in literature.
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Literary form.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literary form
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Self in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96041281 |
| ISBN |
1429415606 |
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9781429415606 |
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0195356195 |
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9780195356199 |
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9780195102635 |
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0195102630 |
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1280528591 |
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9781280528590 |
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