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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585996903321

Autore

Bacskai-Atkari Julia

Titolo

The narrative properties of the 19th-century verse novel : reflexive structure, intertextuality and generic history / / Julia Bacskai-Atkari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, : Hamburg University Press, 2019

Hamburg : , : Hamburg University Press, , [2019]

©2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages)

Disciplina

809.3034

Soggetti

Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the narrative properties of the 19th-century verse novel. The genre grew out of Lord Byron’s Don Juan and established itself in various European literatures, with famous examples such as Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. The proposed analysis is unique in the existing literature in defining the genre based on formal properties and in examining its exceptional, reflexive structure in detail. Apart from 19th-century texts, verse novels from contemporary literature are also includ-ed, and thus the connection between these two contexts is discussed for the first time extensively.