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4 produkter
Mind's Isle
Imaginary Islands in English Fiction
Inbunden, 2017
566 kr
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Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island fiction as a genre specific to English literature. Close readings of island fictions from the past …
Epistolary Muse
Women of Letters in England and France, 1652–1802
Häftad, 2017
1075 kr
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Epistolary fiction was in full flower during the period from 1652 to 1802, featuring the masterworks of Guilleragues, Richardson, Rousseau and Laclos. This study traces the development of the art of letter-writing and familiar correspondence and its adaptation by women writers into a remarkable …
Poetry in the Novel
Selected Case Studies
Häftad, 2018
956 kr
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Taking 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 …
Verse Novel in English
Origins, Growth and Expansion
Häftad, 2018
956 kr
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The second of two studies devoted to the interrelations of poetry and prose fiction, this volume examines the origins, development and flowering of the verse novel as a literary hybrid. While the first study was concerned with the different ways in which novelists have incorporated poetry into …
