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monology

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Mo`nol´o`gy
n.1.The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.
It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life.
- De Quincey.
monology
1. the art of performing monologues.
2. Obsolete, a monologue.
See also: Performing
1. the habit of talking to oneself; soliloquizing.
2. Obsolete a monologue. — monologist, n. — monologic, monological, adj.
See also: Self
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Robert Jordan argues persuasively for understanding the presence of different voices within The Man of Law's Tale without recourse to the supposedly unifying framework of the teller's 'personality', while Thomas Farrell makes a rather less persuasive case for the monology of The Clerk's Tale.
Bakhtin and Medieval Voices by DILLON, JANETTE / Yearbook of English Studies
The monology of knowledge - "citational, referential, reverential knowledge" (OT 240) - is never respected but is burlesqued, futilized, pluralized at every turn.
Roland Barthes: against language by Michels, James / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
 
 
 
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