Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the
‘gutter’ in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that
a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence
– to analyse the largely overlooked literary form of the verse
novel. Marked at all levels by the tense constellation of segment
and sequence, and a conspicuously 'gappy' texture, verse novels
offer productive alternatives to the dominant prose novel in
contemporary fiction, where a similar ‘gappiness’ has become a
hallmark, as illustrated by the loosely interlaced multi-strand
plot structures of influential ‘world novels’ (Bolaño,
Mitchell, Powers). The verse novel is a form particularly prolific
in the postcolonial world and among diasporic or minoritarian
writers in the Global North. This study concentrates on two of the
most prominent areas in which verse novels distinguish themselves
from the prose novel to read texts by Derek Walcott, Anne Carson,
Bernadine Evaristo, Patience Agbabi and others: In ‘planetary’
verse novels from the Caribbean, Canada, Samoa and Hawai’i, the
central trope of the volcano evokes a world in constant un/making;
while post-national verse novels, particularly in Britain, modify
the established paradigms of imagined communities. Dirk Wiemann's
study speculates whether the resurgence of verse novels correlates
with the apprehension of inhabiting a world that has become
unpredictable and dangerous but also promising: a
‘post-prosaic’ world.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic USA
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| Authors: |
Dirk Wiemann
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5013-9950-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-5013-9950-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781501399503 |
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