Talk-Show Intimacy and Narrative Technique in Julian Barnes’s Talking It Over and Love, etc.

Julian Barnes’s novel sequence, Talking It Over and Love, etc., adds another to the list of genres the novel has proved capable of absorbing. This novel sequence succeeds in parodying the television talk-show discourse that we might call public relationship talk. The reader is constructed as the int...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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