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monologue, an extended speech by one person only. Strindberg's one-act play The Stronger, spoken entirely by one person, is an extreme example of monologue. Soliloquy is synonymous, but usually refers to a character in a play talking or thinking aloud to himself, giving the audience information essential to the plot. The most obvious example is Hamlet's "To be or not to be …" soliloquy. The dramatic monologue is a lyric poem in which one person speaks, reporting to a silent listener what other characters say and do, while providing insight into his own character, e.g., Browning's "My Last Duchess" and T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Interior monologue is a narrative technique meant to reproduce a character's thoughts, feelings, and associations in the untidy fashion in which they flow through the mind. The Molly Bloom section at the end of James Joyce's novel Ulysses is the most frequently cited example of perfect use of the device. monologue 1. a long speech made by one actor in a play, film, etc., esp when alone 2. a dramatic piece for a single performer How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Clifford identifies this narrative strategy as an indirect style used frequently in ethnographic discourse, the use of which is meant to reinforce the ethnographer's control over others' voices that might threaten his or her monologic authority (Predicament 47). Flagrantly negating his own advice, Wittman does say "no" to Lance's contributions, overriding any potential for multivocality in favor of his own monologic creation. To the teacher of English, there is a fear, undoubtedly a legitimate one, that interpretation of the literary text from an ethical perspective may become strongly thematized to make reductive, dogmatic, monologic claims about its moral content, or take the moral component of the work as its sole theoretical and practical object. |
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