{"product_id":"poetry-in-the-novel-selected-case-studies-9781788744508","title":"Poetry in the Novel: Selected Case Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntended 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS: Verse and Song: John Bunyan’s \u003cem\u003eThe Pilgrim’s Progress \u003c\/em\u003e– Mixed Strains: Jean Toomer’s \u003ci\u003eCane \u003c\/i\u003e– Soliloquies and Interludes: Virginia Woolf’s \u003cem\u003eThe Waves \u003c\/em\u003e– Left-Handed Poems: Michael Ondaatje’s \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Works of Billy the Kid \u003c\/em\u003e– Borderline Vignettes: Jamie Iredell’s \u003cem\u003eProse. Poems. a novel \u003c\/em\u003e– Emily St. Aubert: Ann Radcliffe’s \u003cem\u003eThe Mysteries of Udolpho \u003c\/em\u003e– Stephen Dedalus: James Joyce’s \u003cem\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man \u003c\/em\u003e– Yuri Zhivago: Boris Pasternak’s \u003cem\u003eDoctor Zhivago \u003c\/em\u003e– F. X. Enderby: Anthony Burgess’s \u003cem\u003eInside Mr Enderby \u003c\/em\u003e– Adam Gordon: Ben Lerner’s \u003cem\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station \u003c\/em\u003e– Mary Swann: Carol Shields’s \u003cem\u003eSwann \u003c\/em\u003e– Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte: A. S. Byatt’s \u003cem\u003ePossession \u003c\/em\u003e– Thomas Chatterton: Peter Ackroyd’s \u003cem\u003eChatterton \u003c\/em\u003e– Bob McCorkle: Peter Carey’s \u003cem\u003eMy Life as a Fake \u003c\/em\u003e– John Shade’s «Pale Fire»: Vladimir Nabokov’s \u003cem\u003ePale Fire \u003c\/em\u003e– Lisa Erdman’s «Don Giovanni»: D. M. Thomas’s \u003cem\u003eThe White Hotel \u003c\/em\u003e– Paul Celan’s «\u003ci\u003eTodesfuge»\u003c\/i\u003e: Mary Rakow’s \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Room \u003c\/em\u003e– Gerard Manley Hopkins’s «The Wreck of the Deutschland»: Ron Hansen’s \u003cem\u003eExiles \u003c\/em\u003e– Ann More and John Donne: Maeve Haran’s \u003cem\u003eThe Lady and the Poet \u003c\/em\u003e– \u003ci\u003eSongs of Innocence and of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e: Tracy Chevalier’s \u003cem\u003eBurning Bright \u003c\/em\u003e– Emily Dickinson and her Journal: Jamie Fuller’s \u003cem\u003eThe Diary of Emily Dickinson \u003c\/em\u003e– Sylvia Plath and \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e: Kate Moses’ \u003ci\u003eWintering.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042519023959,"sku":"9781788744508","price":51.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788744508.jpg?v=1750954485","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetry-in-the-novel-selected-case-studies-9781788744508","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}