TY - BOOK ID - 1437172 TI - Dramatic monologue PY - 2003 SN - 0415229367 0415229375 0203754786 1134695101 1134695179 9781134695102 130671754X 9781306717540 9780203754788 9780415229364 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Literary semiotics KW - English literature KW - Drama KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - American poetry KW - Dramatic monologues KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1437172 AB - The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century. Glennis Byron unravels its history and argues that, contrary to belief, the monologue remains popular to this day. This far-reaching and neatly structured volume:* explores the origins of the monologue and presents a history of definitions of the term* considers the monologue as a form of social critique* explores issues at play in our understanding of the genr ER -