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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Dickens Novels as Verse

Name: Dickens Novels as Verse
Brand: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Product 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. Review Joseph Jordan has given us a reading of the almost invisible patterning of syntax and syntactical echoes deep in the texture of Dickens's writing that is so fresh and persuasive, it tells us something genuinely new about novels.--Robert Hass, University of California, Berkeley About the Author Joseph P. Jordan is lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley

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Brand: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1611475244
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 May 2012
Listed Since: 03 January 2012

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