Entangled voices : genre and the religious construction of the self /
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.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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Table of 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.