Dickens Novels as Verse

Dickens Novels as Verse
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 159
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ISBN-10 : 9781611475241
ISBN-13 : 1611475244
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Book Synopsis Dickens Novels as Verse by : Joseph P. Jordan

Download or read book Dickens Novels as Verse written by Joseph P. Jordan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As its startling and aggressive title suggests, Dickens Novels as Verse is no standard work of literary criticism. It is, in fact, altogether new and original. Jordan likens the experience of some of the great Dickens novels, particularly the later ones (namely, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend) to the experience of lyric verse. The point is not that Dickens novels could ever be mistaken for lyric poems, but that the experience of some of the best of Dickens's novels, despite their undoubted sprawl, is like the experience of lyric poems--is so because the novels are made up of the same things that make great verse great: intricate, largely unnoticeable tissues of alliteration-like patterning that net across the work and give narratively insignificant coherence to it. Dickens Novels as Verse meticulously describes these book-length patterns in clear, lucid prose. Its three chapters, each focused on a single Dickens novel, are full of close analyses that can be immediately used by teachers, students, and all other readers of Dickens to grasp why Dickens always seems to be a greater writer than the quality of his ideas might lead us to expect.


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