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"compounded each of both yet either neither": Experimental Dialogics and Literary Ethics of the American Modernist Novel

Merola, Jonathan
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0903-4920
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563456785167138

Abstract Details

2019, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This project considers the relationship between Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of the novel as a dialogic form and the American Modernist novel, particularly William Faulkner’s works The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom! Bakhtin’s celebration of the open-ended dialogue of voices in the novel offers an obvious parallel with the typical multiplicity of perspectives in modernist works, but nuances regarding dialectic or dialogic unities allow for further insights into how certain works of modernism, such as Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives, demonstrate dialogism differing from Faulkner’s major novels. Additionally a consideration regarding Bakhtin’s connection of dialogism as a worldview and ethics leads this work to consider how the novelistic form participates in and ultimately encourages ethical representation and creation both inside and outside the text.
Erin Edwards (Committee Chair)
Madelyn Detloff (Committee Member)
Andrew Hebard (Committee Member)
77 p.
Aesthetics; Ethics; Literature
Dialogics, Bakhtin, Faulkner, Modernism, Novel Theory

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  • Merola, J. (2019). "compounded each of both yet either neither": Experimental Dialogics and Literary Ethics of the American Modernist Novel [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563456785167138

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Merola, Jonathan. "compounded each of both yet either neither": Experimental Dialogics and Literary Ethics of the American Modernist Novel. 2019. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563456785167138.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Merola, Jonathan. ""compounded each of both yet either neither": Experimental Dialogics and Literary Ethics of the American Modernist Novel." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563456785167138

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