The battle on the one side with the anti-Unitarians who regard "monology" as a fond thing vainly invented, and on the other with Edmond de Goncourt's foolish and bumptious boast that Flaubert's epithets were not so "personal" as his own and his brother's, would be for a different division of literary history. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
But he made it an art, and his widow, talent agent Kathleen Russo, says Gray is nothing less than the "grandfather of monology.". From Wordnik.com. [timesunion.com: Local Breaking News] Reference
The model of religious life for the fifth century, it remained a model for succeeding centuries; on the lives of St. Antony and his compeers were founded the whole literature of saintly biographies; the whole popular conception of the universe, and of man's relation to it; the whole science of dæmonology, with its peculiar literature, its peculiar system of criminal jurisprudence. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermits]
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