The Politics of Monologist Representation - ألاعيب التصوير المونولوجي

This article proffers a deconstructionist reading of the dramatic monologue and examines its rhetorical strategies politics monologic representation, by which first-person speaker/monologist monopolizes discursive space over-represents himself, while silencing other voices in text refusing them freedom to express themselves. Through close analysis monologist representation Other various texts, including “Mending Wall” Robert Frost, “Devonshire Street W. 1” John Betjeman, as well Ron Carlson’s short story “Bigfoot Stole My Wife” (albeit prose ), this seeks expose ways poetic persona is always partial, interested, subjective, with not-so-subtle an agenda, speaker who passes value judgments on human objects his overbearing tone. By examining against both Aristotelian ethos Bakhtinian intonation, suggests that readers critics can give voice voiceless elastic genre abandon their sympathetic interpretations practically absolve monologists any bias towards absent enemies or representation.