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OverviewAs 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph P. JordanPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.404kg ISBN: 9781611475241ISBN 10: 1611475244 Pages: 158 Publication Date: 31 May 2012 Recommended Age: From 22 from 22 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgments Note on Editions, Citation and Typography Introduction Chapter 1—A Tale of Two Cities Chapter 2—Our Mutual Friend Chapter 3—Great Expectations Appendix—Echoes Between the Final Paragraphs of Chapters 1-7 of Great Expectation Selected Bibliography NotesReviewsJoseph 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. -- Haas, Bob 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 Author InformationJoseph P. Jordan is lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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