The Narrative Properties of the 19th-Century Verse Novel
Reflexive Structure, Intertextuality and Generic History
Author(s)
Bacskai-Atkari, Julia
Collection
AG UniverlageLanguage
GermanAbstract
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.
Keywords
Byron; Genre theory; Reflexivity; Romanticism; Narrative structure; Verse novelDOI
10.15460/HUP.HHD.005.201ISBN
9783943423754, 9783943423754Publisher
Hamburg University PressPublication date and place
Hamburg, 2019Classification
Ancient, classical and medieval texts