By Glennis Byron
ISBN-10: 0415229367
ISBN-13: 9780415229364
ISBN-10: 0415229375
ISBN-13: 9780415229371
The dramatic monologue is generally linked to Victorian poets corresponding to Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is usually thought of to have disappeared with the onset of modernism within the 20th century. Glennis Byron unravels its heritage and argues that, opposite to trust, the monologue continues to be well known to at the present time. This far-reaching and smartly established volume:
* explores the origins of the monologue and provides a background of definitions of the term
* considers the monologue as a kind of social critique
* explores concerns at play in our figuring out of the style, reminiscent of subjectivity, gender and politics
* lines the improvement of the style via to the current day.
Taking as instance the more and more politicized nature of latest poetry, the writer sincerely and succinctly provides an account of the monologue's growing to be recognition over the last twenty years.
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