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Everywhere you turn today, someone is talking to you - the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone. This book reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture.

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"In this engaging book, Kacandes (German studies and comparative literature, Dartmouth) tries to enlarge understanding of the rhetoric of fiction by creating a new category: talk fiction. . . . Kacandes has done a good service, in clear English, in calling readers back to rhetorical categories that make up fiction."—Choice

Table of Contents
Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Secondary Orality - Talk as Interaction; 2. Storytelling - Talk as Sustenance; 3. Testimony - Talk as Witnessing; 4. Apostrophe - Talk as Performance; 5. Interactivity - Talk as Collaboration; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Talk Fiction Literature and the Talk Explosion

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/2001
      ISBN13: 9780803278011, 978-0803278011
      ISBN10: 0803278012

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Everywhere you turn today, someone is talking to you - the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone. This book reads contemporary fiction as a form of conversation and as part of the larger conversation that is modern culture.

      Trade Review
      "In this engaging book, Kacandes (German studies and comparative literature, Dartmouth) tries to enlarge understanding of the rhetoric of fiction by creating a new category: talk fiction. . . . Kacandes has done a good service, in clear English, in calling readers back to rhetorical categories that make up fiction."—Choice

      Table of Contents
      Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Secondary Orality - Talk as Interaction; 2. Storytelling - Talk as Sustenance; 3. Testimony - Talk as Witnessing; 4. Apostrophe - Talk as Performance; 5. Interactivity - Talk as Collaboration; Notes; Works Cited; Index

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