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Poetry in the Novel - Selected Case Studies (Paperback, New edition)
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Poetry in the Novel - Selected Case Studies (Paperback, New edition)
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Taking up Virginia Woolf's provocative claim that "the best prose
is that which is most full of poetry", this study examines the
different ways in which novelists have incorporated poetry into the
fabric of their fictions. The inclusion of poems in a novel may
serve a variety of purposes: to heighten the atmosphere, to
represent a character's sensations and thoughts as "stream of
consciousness", to illustrate a protagonist's creative output, to
provide an explicit or embedded literary illusion, to function as
an interlude or structural divider, or to create an unclassifiable
literary hybrid that highlights an author's dual talents. To
illustrate these and other forms of integration, twenty-two works
of prose fiction are analysed under five headings: textual
composites that combine prose, poetry and poetic prose to achieve
original effects; apprenticeship novels about the development of
fictive poets and their work; fictions concerned with the
investigation and appropriation of a dead poet's opus; works in
which a single long poem constitutes a novel's principal focus; and
research-based biofictions relating particular events in the lives
of real poets. Intended to stimulate reflection on the
interrelations of prose and poetry, this book works against
literary compartmentalization by revealing how poetry can enhance
prose narrative and how the novel can bring poetry to the notice of
a wider reading public.
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