monologuize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To give a monologue

   To give a monologue; to soliloquize.

   • He kept the ball always going, but did not monologuize, except when he was appealed to as a judge, and then did it with a mellow grace that no man can learn without Natures aid.
   • In The Sound and the Fury, the beautiful reality of Caddy's character might be brought home to us by that means without actually making her monologuize.
   • In addition, Jarrell's one work for the stage was a version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, a play whose three deeply frustrated women monologuize copiously.
2. 2

   To make into a monologue.

   • On the phenomenic level, of course, a dialogue can "monologuize" itself in the same way that a monologue can acquire features of "latent dialogue," etc. (see J. Mukafovsky, 1940a: 146-153);
   • At this point the thoughts of the boy are couched in the language of the boy — they are monologuized.
   • Here begins the essence of literary reflection, a “monologuized” view of the world (Proust), which I find probably the closest.

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