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The Verse Novel in English - Origins, Growth and Expansion (Paperback, New edition)
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The Verse Novel in English - Origins, Growth and Expansion (Paperback, New edition)
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The second of two studies devoted to the interrelations of poetry
and prose fiction, this volume examines the origins, development
and flowering of the verse novel as a literary hybrid. While the
first study was concerned with the different ways in which
novelists have incorporated poetry into their fictions, what is
analysed here is the manner in which poets have adopted novelistic
genres and techniques and adapted these to the prosodic
requirements of rhyming, blank and free verse in order to produce
original literary blends. The novel may thus acquire a fresh
dimension by being re-immersed in its original verse narrative
sources and poetry be rendered more accessible to a wider reading
public. Beginning with Pushkin, who was the first to coin the term
"verse novel" to describe his masterpiece Eugene Onegin, the first
section of this study considers a number of nineteenth-century
Romantic and Victorian verse narratives, as well as some
mid-twentieth-century experimental works, which can be seen to have
contributed to the rise of the verse novel. The second, much
longer, section concentrates on the period 1980-2010, which
witnessed the full fruition of the verse novel as a multicultural
fictional genre. A selection of some two dozen verse novels from
this period, notably those by Anthony Burgess, Anne Carson, Glyn
Maxwell, Les Murray, Vikram Seth and Derek Walcott, are discussed
in terms of both their novelistic and their prosodic merits.
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