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Topic: The novel in verse

	Verse Three, Chapter One, M. Joseph Young's First Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Verse Three, Chapter One, M. Joseph Young's First Novel
		Dimitrios "Jim" Denaxas' cover art is stunning, but praise also goes to Eric York, whose icon illustrations at the beginning of each chapter have garnered many positive comments.
		It might also be worth mentioning that the second Multiverser novel is currently in the hands of an independent editor, and the third has been fully drafted, so it is the beginning of a series which hopes to see print in the near future.
	www.mjyoung.net /publish/novel01.html (256 words)

	Verse novel Information
		Verse novels are a contemporary genre combining the power of narrative with the rich, evocative language of verse or poetry.
		Although the narrative structure of a verse novel is similar to that of a novella, the organisation of the story is usually in a series of short sections, often with changing perspectives.
		Verse novels are often told with multiple narrators, providing readers with a cinematic view into the inner workings of the characters' minds.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Verse_novel (156 words)

	Michael Symmons Roberts: verse novels \| Top 10s \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The verse novel (like the rock opera or the sound sculpture) is the awkward child of successful parents, destined to disappoint both of them.
		Verse novels can be full of bad poetry: essential but dull building blocks to get from A to B. Or they can be strong on music but light on narrative.
		You could argue that a verse novel can only be written in conscious awareness of the novel as a form, which counts out Beowulf and Paradise Lost, despite their scale and richness of story and character.
	books.guardian.co.uk /top10s/top10/0,,1735282,00.html (757 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Versed in Nature
		Narrative verse is often mistakenly assumed to have died out in the 17th or 18th century, when the prose novel replaced the verse epic.
		Natural science is as much the subject of the novel as the vocation of its main character, who undergoes his struggles in a Darwinian universe from which the consolations of myth and religion have been driven by intellectual labors such as those of Darlington himself.
		Although this is a novel rather than an epic, mock-epic or didactic poem, it is a novel in verse, with its own unique set of technical challenges.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33847-2002Mar28?language=printer (741 words)

	Beaut Ideas - Using Verse Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Of course, some verse novels contain ordinary verse and little plot, but the best free verse novels are beautifully crafted, convincing reading experiences with a strong sense of voice.
		Although the narrative structure of a verse novel is similar to a prose novel, the organisation of story is usually in a series of short sections, often with changing perspectives.
		Verse novels are often told with multiple narrators, providing readers with a cinematic view into the inner workings of characters’ minds.
	www.education.tas.gov.au /English/verse.htm (228 words)

	The Looking Glass - Vol. 7, No. 2 - Alice's Academy
		As mentioned above, telling stories in verse is not new, but we now have a number of writers who tell their narratives of love, loss, and lucklessness in the form of verse novels, some of which are impressive in their ability to communicate to an audience that might not readily read 'poetry'.
		In focussing on 'Australian' verse novels, we should attempt to avoid the danger of asserting a collective identity as being representative of what is a diverse, multicultural society.
		The litmus test of a verse novel's 'tellability' is the young reader's willingness to stay with the story, foregoing 'immediate intelligibility', and to respond to the ways the words draw attention to themselves; such attention seeking strategies may reside in linguistic and semantic organisation and inventiveness or in the spatial arrangement on the page.
	www.the-looking-glass.net /rabbit/v7i2/academy.html (5825 words)

	Behind the Fiction with Brenda Weeaks
		Lola by Tim McLaurin is a literary novel in verse.
		Crashboomlove by Juan Felipe Herrera is a young adult novel in verse.
		The Monkey's Mask: An Erotic Murder Mystery by Dorothy Porter is a lesbian detective novel in verse.
	www.myshelf.com /behindthefiction/01/novelsinverse.htm (1447 words)

	Novel page
		To some degree, this focus on the novel reflects a general shift of attention within literary studies away from poetry towards narrative, but we can further attribute the novel's predominance in postcolonial studies to three factors: the representational nature of the novel, its heteroglossic structure, and the function of the chronotope in the novel.
		The representational power of the novel, its ability to give voice to a people in the assertion of their identity and their history, is of primary importance to postcolonial writers and scholars.
		Studies of the novel as chronotope, another term coined by Bakhtin, have perhaps not been as important in the field as those focusing on issues of representation, identity, and heteroglossia, but it is an issue of large importance, especially in the work of more postmodern novelists like Salman Rushdie and critics like Homi Bhabha.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Novel.html (719 words)

	Australian Literature Resources - Dorothy Porter: The Verse Novel and I
		You can’t have a successful verse novel where the story drags and the characters are tepidly drawn.
		Unlike prose novels, where most read in terms of their structure and language pretty much the same, every verse novel is different.
		Even though a verse novel claims to be fictional no literary form is more revealing of the thrashing cries of the author behind it.
	www.austlit.com /a/porter-d/verse-n.html (533 words)

	The Golden Gate (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Set in the 1980s, it follows the lives of a group of yuppies in San Francisco.
		Published in 1986, it was inspired by Charles Johnston's translation of the Pushkin's 1833 Russian classic, Eugene Onegin.
		The Golden Gate is a novel in verse composed of 690 Onegin stanzas (sonnets written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme following the unusual ababccddeffegg pattern of Eugene Onegin).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Golden_Gate_(novel) (139 words)

	Novel in Verse Tracks a Man With Divided Loyalties in World War I
		The recent invention of the ``novel in verse'' as a hybrid genre seems to attest to the novel's ascendancy over poetry in audience and sales.
		In the novel's first book, ``The Middle Sea,'' Murray introduces his first-person narrator and protagonist, Fredy Boettcher, who sketches the events that cause him to lose his sense of touch and gain superhuman strength.
		Book 2, ``Barking at the Thunder,'' is the novel's most engaging section, detailing the postwar Australia to which Fredy returns and his inability to reintegrate himself because of his own freakishness and the prevaling anti-German sentiment.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/30/RV33547.DTL&type=printable (727 words)

	Verner von Heidenstam
		Heidenstam often chose national themes for his novels and his great neoromantic rival was Selma Lagerlöf, the winner of the Nobel Prize in 1909.
		His first novel, ENDYMION (1889), was set in Damascus, and expressed the author's fear of the decline of Orient culture due to European influences.
		It was followed by a pamphlet, RENÄSSANS (1890), the prose-and-verse novel HANS ALIENIUS (1892), in which the protagonist, a wanderer, depicts his problematic relationship with his father, and DIKTER (1895), in which the declamatory and recitative tone do not hide Heidenstam's wishes to be respected as a national poet.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /heidenst.htm (1351 words)

	Learn more about List of poems in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Where verse is set to music, the distinction between poem and song may become artificial.
		See rap, roots of rap music also, on the boundaries: verse+music against verse against verse set to music.
		Verse drama might normally be judged (at its best) as poetry, but not consisting of poems.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_poems.html (439 words)

	Novels in Verse for Teens
		In this novel written in free verse and narrated by alternating characters, a teenaged girl decides to have her baby and care for it on her own after a "one night stand" results in pregnancy.
		Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins.
		In this novel written as a collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 180 people, mostly women and children.
	www.dover.lib.nh.us /teenpage/novelsverse.htm (768 words)

	chicklit: book bundle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Probably the biggest hurdle in making verse novels accessible to modern audiences is simply that we're used to reading the more conversational style of prose.
		Modern authors who choose to revitalize the venerable form of epic-length poetry must struggle against the ingrained resistance of their audience to an unaccustomed form, and, as in any style of literature, must present a story that is engaging enough to transcend the vehicle of its presentation.
		The cast of the novel pine, fret, go on dates, fight, break up, and ponder the meaning of their existences, all without missing a beat or a rhyming couplet.
	www.chicklit.com /bundle/bundle22.html (563 words)

	Darlington's Fall - Brad Leithauser
		Leithauser's verse is clear, readable, and inviting (.....) able to convey not only the dimensions of metaphor but what he calls "specificity" simply, appropriately, and without abandoning or compromising the form or mode of his poem.
		Brad Leithauser's novel in verse is presented in twelve chapters, the story told in ten-line stanzas.
		Verse can be intimidating, and novels in verse -- a few hundred pages of one story -- doubly so.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popus/leithab.htm (1199 words)

	Bernardine Evaristo Interviewed by Karen McCarthy
		Her new book, like Lara, is also a novel in verse and it confirms her reputation as one of Britain's most distinctive, witty and original poetic voices.
		The novel is peppered with Latin, Italian, Cockney-rhyming slang, patois, American slang, pidgin Scots-Latin, and in the case of Severus, broken English.
		My forthcoming novel is in prose, but it began life as a novel-in-verse, then it was a prose novel, then a novel-in verse again, and finally now a prose novel.
	www.valpo.edu /english/vpr/evaristointerview.html (1889 words)

	The Naïve Protagonist in the Early Polish Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		’s novel tradition was heavily underdeveloped at the time, this lack of a developed protagonist ought not to be attributed to immaturity on the part of the authors of these works.
		Nicholas Wisdom fuses two already established literary archetypes—the novel of education and the novel of travel—the structure employed by Krasicki is novel and anticipates later philosophical development.
		In Potocki’s novel, the structure of the narrative confuses the reader, in a manner that parallels the puzzlement of the protagonist on his journeys.
	home.comcast.net /~kkeslar/writing/12.htm (2505 words)

	Pein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Of the Formalists, Tynjanov was the most systematic in elaborating his view of rhythm as the constructive or dominant factor in verse.
		In that respect, rhythm was not limited to verse as it later was.
		Accordingly, the digressions could be conceptualized better as an expression of both the processual nature of the creation of Puškin’s novel in verse as well as the product of his creative imagination.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2000/abstract-90.html (349 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Happiness: A Novel in Verse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The novel in verse is up-and-coming nowadays, what with the late Anthony Burgess' Byrne, Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, and now Pollack's take, in free-verse quatrains, on a classic sf setup, the utopia.
		This novel in free verse quatrains develops an odd and choppy style, with a jagged syntax, to tell its 32 episodes, set after an apocalyptic revolution.
		A wall arises, separating the world we know from the new Ardena, where all incorrect behavior is transformed by the Avengers of Wrong, a hit squad of the righteous that heals the sick (from AIDS to acne) and punishes the...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1885266588 (384 words)

	Wave and Stone, Verse and Prose by Kathleen Rooney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Emperor’s Babe: a Verse Novel of Londinium, 211 A.D. Penguin, 2001.
		Yet truly hybrid works that meet neither the definition of the novel, nor the definition of verse, nor my definition of the novel-in-verse do; they make it possible to express fresh ideas in refreshing ways, thereby opening doors on new means of literary expression.
		The Emperor’s Babe: a Verse Novel of Londinium, 211 A. Like Anne Carson, Evaristo—thanks to meticulous research conducted during her time as Poet in Residence at the Museum of London—turns to the classics, sexes them up, and gives them new life.
	www.cprw.com /Rooney/novelsinverse.htm (5946 words)

	WFY: Novels in Verse, a Booklist
		Novel in poetry about a girl navigating the unknown, the difficult limbo between youth and adulthood.
		A novel written in verse follows Penny Morrow in her transition from middle school to high school as her father remarries, she acquires a new stepbrother, and she experiences her first dance, first kiss, and other hazards of growing up.
		In this novel told in slam verse, best friends and aspiring poets Laura and Twig embark on a road trip after graduating from high school, from Pennsylvania to New York City, to compete at slam poetry events.
	www.wiredforyouth.com /books/index.cfm?booklist=verse (1167 words)

	Journal of spur (4197)
		Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin is widely regarded as one of the brightest stars in Russian literature of the 19th century, and this book is a good justification to that title.
		Pushkin uses the rhyming masterfully to reflect the characters' feelings and the pace of the novel in general.
		Plot wise, the novel tells a story of failed love, of missed moments and of the hypocrisity of the high society in Russia of the early 1800s.
	use.perl.org /~spur/journal/22827?from=rss (555 words)

	Amazon.com: Watercolor Women / Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse: Books: Ana Castillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		An epic in verse, the story of Castillo's chicana Everywoman—referred to alternately as "She" and "Ella"—begins life in the rough-and-tumble world of California's migrant farm community.
		Ella's childhood is spent in los files, or the fields, and she is told early on by Mama Grande that "all men are the same." Rebellious aunt Renata brings her niece to Chicago, where she works a string of blue-collar jobs and attempts to better herself through college classes.
		As the perspective shifts to the first person, Ella, describing herself as "Part Medusa/ Part Mother Goose/ and part Xochiquetzal," draws on all of her personal and cultural resources to raise her son to be different from all the "opaque" men she sees around them.
	www.amazon.com /Watercolor-Women-Opaque-Men-Novel/dp/1931896208 (2137 words)

	[New-Poetry] Brad Leithauser's new novel-in-verse. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		In the fourth chapter, the book'= s=20 hero, an imaginary Midwestern naturalist named Russel Darlington, travels to= =20 the remote island of Ponape in Micronesia in the year 1912.
		Blurry photographs, customs forms, bills= =20 of lading, baptismal records--and then I found it: an anonymous report, date= d=20 1910, by a visitor to the island, detailing what he saw as he wandered the=20 island on his first few days...
		As the author of five previous novels= =20 and four books of poetry, I might answer that I've always been interested in= =20 combining the two genres.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /pipermail/new-poetry/2002-April/006920.html (1352 words)

	slope:thrtn
		It works as a verse novel primarily because it has all the essential parts of fiction (plot, setting, characters, rising action, etc.) without wholly giving itself over to a more traditional novel form.
		The "verse novel" is either a very new entity or a very new name for one anticipated by writing since its start.
		Perhaps the verse novel is only a new kind of epic poem, just as the novel, in its inception with Don Quixote, was a new style of epic narrative.
	www.slope.org /archive/thirteen/13_killebrew.html (899 words)

	The Hindu : A novel in verse
		Eugene Onegin is "a novel in verse" in eight cantos which are called chapters.
		Written in special Onegin stanzas (in four- footed iambics of 14 lines) it is a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.
		Eugene, the hero of the "novel in verse" is an uprooted individual of the 1820s, a bored dandy whose early dissipations are described in the first canto.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/12/03/stories/13030678.htm (1109 words)

	VIKRAM SETH
		For it is, like the Japanese novel, at its heart an elegy as well as a comedy of manners, about a traditional society in a time of change, and about a leisurely world of graces giving way to a new, more democratic time.
		The 1,349 page novel is considered to be the longest novel in a single volume.
		A novel 381 pages long published by Viking is the story of Michael,a lonely, brooding violinist who lives in London with the memories of Julia- the "making of me", the pianist with whom he made such melody.
	www.rigzin.freeservers.com /vikramseth.htm (596 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Bernardine Evaristo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Bernardine Evaristo's second novel-in-verse, The Emperor's Babe, presents a multi-cultural panorama of London in the year 211 A.D. Zuleika, the novel's principal character, is the daughter of Sudanese shopkeepers, immigrants to Roman Britain from another far-flug territory of the Empire.
		Married off at the age of eleven to an obese merchant with a busy travel schedule, Zuleika is left to explore "A city of slum tenements and sumptuous villas, of orgy queens, drag queens and drama queens.
		The novel traces Lara's complex heritage back seven generations in order to shed light on the collisions of race and culture that produced her.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/evaristo_bernardine.html (357 words)

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