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Publication details [#54251]

Bowles, Hugo. 2010. Storytelling and Drama. Exploring Narrative Episodes in Plays. (Linguistic approaches to literature 8). John Benjamins. IX+216 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

How do characters tell stories in plays and for what dramatic purpose? This volume provides the first systematic analysis of narrative episodes in drama from an interactional perspective, applying sociolinguistic theories of narrative and insights from conversation analysis to literary dialogue. The aim of the book is to show how narration can become drama and how analysis of the way a character tells a story can be the key to understanding its role in the unfolding action. The book’s interactional approach, which analyses the way in which the characteristic features of everyday conversational stories are used by dramatists to create literary effects, offers an additional tool for dramatic criticism.