The Verse Novel: A Modern American Poetic Genre

1989 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick D. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Verse Novel

scholarly journals Patterns and Trends in Contemporary Canadian Verse-Novels for Young People

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Beverley A. Brenna ◽  
Yina Liu ◽  
Shuwen Sun
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Reluctant Readers ◽  
Verse Novel

This qualitative content analysis identified patterns and trends in a contemporary set of Canadian verse-novels for young people. Twenty-two books were located in our search for titles published between 1995 and 2016, and many of these emerged as award-winners in various contexts including the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature (text). Dresang’s notion of Radical Change, adapted for this interrogation, illuminated particular elements of these societal artifacts worthy of notice. While studies have occurred regarding textual forms or formats and reader characteristics, specific work with the verse-novel and its use with struggling and reluctant readers is limited, with professional articles appearing in place of research-oriented discussions. Scrutiny of available verse-novels is important as it opens a door for explorations of these resources with participants in classroom settings.  

War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kopec
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Social Violence ◽  
Erie Canal ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Internal Improvements ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
Verse Novel

Abstract This essay considers the politico-aesthetics of infrastructure by focusing on poems that anticipate, justify, and critique internal improvements, from Joel Barlow’s early Republican vision of the Erie and Panama Canals to texts that document the ruin caused by the works Barlow imagined as glorious. Historical scholarship has long assessed the mania for cutting roads and canals into the landscape. But engaging an emerging infrastructuralism—and turning to imaginative texts that exist underneath the ground typically trod by US literary studies, from Philip Freneau’s celebratory ode to the Erie Canal to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ironic canal travel sketches to Margarita Engle’s recent historical verse-novel tallying the devastations of the Panama Canal—this essay identifies an infrastructural dialectic in which writers view infrastructure, initially, as awesome so as to justify its ecological and social violence and, subsequently, as banal so as to render it invisible within the settler state. Oscillating between awe and irritation, the sublime and the stuplime, then, these texts both expose the rhythm of infrastructure’s long—that is, low—relation to the structure of coloniality and, in Engle’s case, model how to disrupt it so as to imagine a more just life “after” infrastructure.

‘Your Fourier’s Failed’

2018 ◽  
pp. 274-297
Author(s):  
Eric Hood
Keyword(s):  
Nodal Point ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
George Sand ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Aurora Leigh ◽  
Charles Fourier ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Verse Novel

This chapter traces the affective forces at work in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s representation of utopian socialist Charles Fourier in Aurora Leigh (1855).  In Barrett Browning’s verse-novel, “Fourier” operates as a sign mediated by networks of affect, referring not only to the political struggles surrounding socialism in the 1850s but also to Barrett Browning’s personal psychoanalytic conflicts against both her father and her own queer desires (particularly, for George Sand).  Thus, “Fourier” functions as a nodal point in Aurora Leigh where a political crisis and the author’s individual psychological needs meet to produce a dismissal of the economic and social alternatives that were available at that historical moment and the forms of queer identity that challenged the heteronormative, liberal order.

The Verse Novel in Young Adult Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 24-25
Author(s):  
Dina Meky
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Verse Novel

The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-421
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Kersh
Keyword(s):  
Verse Novel

Verse-Novel: Generic Hybridity and the Chamber-Pot

Style ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-343
Author(s):  
Catherine Addison
Keyword(s):  
Verse Novel

The verse novel as musical drama:Vanishing Pointas case study

New Writing ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Jeri Kroll ◽  
Leslie Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Verse Novel

Ludlow: A Verse Novel Part I

2004 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 401
Author(s):  
David Mason
Keyword(s):  
Verse Novel
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