Add to ORKGSome thirty verse novels have been published in Australia since the mid 1970s,the number accelerating through the nineties into the turn of the millennia, yet little has been written about this phenomenon. Even in the USA, where Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986) made a considerable splash, discussion of the verse novel has focused on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1823-31), with the occasional scholar worrying how to define the paradoxical genre. For the purposes of this essay, a verse novel is defined as a work the poet has chosen to call by that name, or any extended verse narrative that can be assessed in terms of both its versification and its handling of basic novelistic properties like character, plot and point of view. It is not difficu...
This chapter considers ways in which the Australian novel emerged in the early nineteenth century th...
Pastoral was common as a European literary genre from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. ...
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related ...
Between nineteen-twenty and the present day Australian novelists have, in the settings of their work...
Across countless acts of sustained creativity that can and do take years to perform, and via reading...
Research is yet to describe the stylistic preferences that shape contemporary Australian verse novel...
While prose rather than verse became the standard of the modern novel, the ancestors of the modern E...
It is time for prose poetry to be more broadly recognised asan important form of poetry, and for it ...
In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and i...
The origins of the novel and the settlement of Australia may both be located within the historical c...
By the close of the nineteenth century, Australian writers and critics generally agreed that 'the wr...
Abstract Poetry played an important part in the founding of Australian literature. During its early ...
The origins of the novel and the settlement of Australia may both be located within the historical c...
In the period between the two World Wars, Australian literature began to reflect an acceptance of th...
This book offers an investigation into the historical evolution of Australian literary criticism sin...
This chapter considers ways in which the Australian novel emerged in the early nineteenth century th...
Pastoral was common as a European literary genre from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. ...
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related ...
Between nineteen-twenty and the present day Australian novelists have, in the settings of their work...
Across countless acts of sustained creativity that can and do take years to perform, and via reading...
Research is yet to describe the stylistic preferences that shape contemporary Australian verse novel...
While prose rather than verse became the standard of the modern novel, the ancestors of the modern E...
It is time for prose poetry to be more broadly recognised asan important form of poetry, and for it ...
In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and i...
The origins of the novel and the settlement of Australia may both be located within the historical c...
By the close of the nineteenth century, Australian writers and critics generally agreed that 'the wr...
Abstract Poetry played an important part in the founding of Australian literature. During its early ...
The origins of the novel and the settlement of Australia may both be located within the historical c...
In the period between the two World Wars, Australian literature began to reflect an acceptance of th...
This book offers an investigation into the historical evolution of Australian literary criticism sin...
This chapter considers ways in which the Australian novel emerged in the early nineteenth century th...
Pastoral was common as a European literary genre from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. ...
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related ...