Linda Weste, "Depiction of Mind in the 21st Century Verse Novel"

This paper analyzes the twenty-first-century verse novels, Lisa Jacobson's The Sunlit Zone (2012) and Judy Johnson's Jack (2007), to determine how their poetic elements--including metaphor, simile, personification, and rhyme--interact with narrative elements to evoke fictional minds. Both verse novels utilize simultaneous narration, a narrative situation that current research maintains has significant consequences for mind depiction.

Linda Weste is a teacher in the School of Culture & Communication at The University of Melbourne and director of narrAUS, an online narratology network for Australia and the Asia Pacific. She is Project Narrative's Spring 2013 Visiting Scholar.