{"product_id":"lyrical-strategies-katie-owens-murphy-9780810136540","title":"Lyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel","description":"\u003ci\u003eLyrical Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e advances the highly original idea that not all literary fiction should be read as a novel. Instead, Katie Owens-Murphy identifies a prominent type of American novel well suited to the reading methods of lyric poetry and exhibiting lyric frameworks of structural repetition, rhythm, figurative meaning, dramatic personae, and exclusive address. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Owens-Murphy surveys a broad array of writers: poets from the lyrical transatlantic tradition, as well as American novelists including Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy. Through a masterful reexamination of canonical works of twentieth-century American fiction through the lens of lyric poetry, she reveals how many elements in these novels can be better understood as poetic and rhetorical figures (metaphysical conceit, polysyndeton, dramatic monologue, apostrophe, and so on) than as narrative ones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Making fresh contributions to literary theory and American fiction, \u003ci\u003eLyrical Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e will fascinate readers and scholars of the American novel, fiction, poetry, and poetics alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katie Owens-Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810136546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810136540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Katie Owens-Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096744075519,"sku":"9780810136540","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lyrical-strategies-katie-owens-murphy-9780810136540","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}