Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power

About this book

"Can a speaker's words ever be faithfully reported? History, ethnography, political theory, linguistics, and literary criticism all involve debates about discourse and representation. By drawing from Plato's theory of discourse, the lively analysis of speech representation in this book provides a coherent and original contribution to these debates, and highlights the problems involved when speech becomes both the object and the medium of narrative representation."--Jacket.