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title	:	Echo Chambers : Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative
author	:	O'Donnell, Patrick.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877453756
print isbn13	:	9780877453758
ebook isbn13	:	9781587291722
language	:	English
subject	English fiction--History and criticism, American fiction--History and criticism, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Subjectivity in literature, Modernism (Literature) , Narration (Rhetoric) , Self in literature.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	PR830.I3O36 1992eb
ddc	:	823.009
subject	:	English fiction--History and criticism, American fiction--History and criticism, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Subjectivity in literature, Modernism (Literature) , Narration (Rhetoric) , Self in literature.

Page iii Echo Chambers Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative Patrick O'Donnell University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1992 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Richard Hendel No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O'Donnell, Patrick, 1948 Echo chambers: figuring voice in modern narrative/ by Patrick O'Donnell. p. cm. Includes bibligraphical references (p. ) and index ISBN 0-87745-375-6 (acid-free paper) 1. English fictionHistory and criticism. 2. American fictionHistory and criticism. 3. Indentity (Psychology) in literature. 4. Subjectivity in literature. 5. Modernism (Literature). 6. Narration (Rhetoric). 7. Self in literature I. Title. PR830.I3036 1992 92-3841 823.009dc20 CIP 96 95 94 93 92 C 5 4 3 2 1

Page v Dedicated to the Memory of WILLIAM FRANCIS O'DONNELL (19261988) and BETTY O'DONNELL (19261990)

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Figuring Voice in Narrative 1 Chapter One. "A Speeches of Chaff": Ventriloquy and Expression in Our Mutual Friend 27 Chapter Two. "Unear'd Wombs": Engendering Voice in Ulysses 64 Chapter Three. Sub Rosa: Voice, Body, and History in Absalom, Absalom! 93 Chapter Four. The Acculturation of Voice in Under the Volcano 116 Chapter Five. "His Master's Voice": Commodifying Identity in JR 154 Envoi 185 Notes 189 Index 221

Page ix Acknowledgments This book is intended to contribute to the vibrant and emerging mosaic of discussions about voice in narrative. These, I believe, are amongst the most engaging considerations of how narrative works and how identity is formed or de-formed in the act of writing, and I have learned a great deal from them: my citations of these are merely the legible tracings of my gratitude toward the work and thought of the many critics on voice. I am also grateful to friends and colleagues who have provided advice and support at various stages and in various ways as I wrote this book: Lynda Zwinger, Susan Hardy Aiken, Jerrold Hogle, Edgar A. Dryden, Tenney Nathanson, Dennis Allen, Timothy Dow Adams, John T. Matthews, Phil-

Page x lip Weinstein, Heide Ziegler, and Marc Chnetier. Paul Armstrong read the manuscript in its entirety and made invaluable suggestions throughout. Garrett Stewart generously provided me with a copy of the manuscript of his Reading Voices at a crucial time during the writing of the introduction. My thanks to Paul Zimmer, the director of the University of Iowa Press, whose support and encouragement have, as in the past, been essential in bringing this book to completion. I acknowledge with pleasure the support of the Eberly family of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, whose endowment to West Virginia University provided me with the working conditions and research support essential to the completion of this project; Gerald Lang, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Rudolph Almasy, the chair of the Department of English at West Virginia University, deserve thanks for their steady support and confidence. I am also grateful to the editors of College Literature, Dickens Studies Annual, and Postmodern Culture for permission to reprint revised portions of the discussion that originally appeared in these journals. Diane, Sean, and Sara O'Donnell have, once again, put up with me during the writing of a book; without their love and support, it would not have been worth writing, nor could it have been written. Finally, I dedicate this work on voice to the memory of my parents, William and Betty O'Donnell, whose voices are not altogether absent, echoing, as they do occasionally, in my inner ear and in the voices of my brothers and my sister. Tucson, ArizonaMorgantown, West Virginia

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