Dickens Novels as Verse
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Ancient & Classical, British, Nonfiction, History, Modern, 19th Century
| Author: | Joseph P. Jordan | ISBN: | 9781611475258 |
| Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | Publication: | May 31, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Joseph P. Jordan |
| ISBN: | 9781611475258 |
| Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Publication: | May 31, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Language: | English |
Dickens Novels as Verse adds to Dickens criticism by being unlike most Dickens criticism. It argues that some of the great Dickens novels (A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations) are held together by book-length patterns in topics that, like alliteration in lyric verse, are non-signifying and do not reward interpretation, but that, by organizing the object in dimensions extra to syntax, make readers’ experience feel truer than it would otherwise feel.
Dickens Novels as Verse adds to Dickens criticism by being unlike most Dickens criticism. It argues that some of the great Dickens novels (A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations) are held together by book-length patterns in topics that, like alliteration in lyric verse, are non-signifying and do not reward interpretation, but that, by organizing the object in dimensions extra to syntax, make readers’ experience feel truer than it would otherwise feel.
