Chris
I can possibly reply to all that you said in that long post, but this
caused me to hink about a recent book by a friend, Alice Major's The
Office Tower Tales (University of Alberta Press, 2008).
Quoting "Christopher C Jones" <[log in to unmask]>:
This explains that strange sort of flatness verse
novels written in a lyric mode seem to have.
You perhaps leave out the idea of the drama(tic) despite referring to
Bahktin? And how that enters into the novel, or storytelling, as well
as what you seem to see as 'lyric'?
In this sequence of 'tales' (that I found went better in verse than
they would in prose, which was interesting) & 'prologues' (all of
which concerned the same three women from different offices), the
dramatic interactions meshed with the ongoing story(ies), & with
occasional 'lyric' moments. It wokred much better than I thought it
would.
But 'lyric' for you seems to have expanded way beyond an poetic; so
I'm not sure how to read it, or your larger argument, although I do
find it fascinating...
Doug
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