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Title: Dickens Novels as Verse
Condition: New
Author: Joseph P. Jordan
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 161147728X
EAN: 9781611477283
ISBN: 9781611477283
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 19/05/2014
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 228mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Width: 13mm
Item Weight: 245g
Release Year: 2014

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