ISBN-13: 9780472114351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 322 str.
Smarr explores how speech-acts relate to the genre of the dialogue, observing that in the act of dialogue the self is actually plural because it is by definition intertwined with the other actor in the dialogue. She examines how Italian and French women of the Renaissance turned to the genre and act of the written dialogue to move beyond political