TY - BOOK AU - Jordan,Joseph P. TI - Dickens novels as verse SN - 9781611475258 AV - PR4594 U1 - 823/.8 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Madison, Lanham, Maryland PB - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated KW - Dickens, Charles, KW - Great expectations (Dickens, Charles) KW - fast KW - Our mutual friend (Dickens, Charles) KW - Tale of two cities (Dickens, Charles) KW - Repetition in literature KW - Répétition (Rhétorique) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Literary style KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140) and index; A tale of two cities -- Our mutual friend -- Great expectations N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=506045 ER -