Printing a canonical poem in full makes it carry civilizational weight within a novel

Evidence

So when the time comes, “Dover Beach” has a talismanic quality in the novel, its importance reiterated by its being printed in full at the end of the novel as a kind of appendix. Baxter stands awestruck by the poem, and Perowne speculates that he is experiencing a profound, moving nostalgia that reminds him “how much he wanted to live” (278). Although Baxter’s mind is being eaten away by Huntington’s, his mood swing here takes on a broader implication, connecting him to a cultural or civilizational consciousness in which he is immersed for all his disenfranchisement. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 116

Categorization

• XREF: The talisman-plus-appendix technique is a transferable formal device for comparing how novels grant aesthetic objects authority over unruly others. — connects to: Contemporary literary fiction mediates speculative community as print did nationalism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 405; A recurring physical landmark can anchor a novel’s historical longue durée — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 347; Interpolated canonical novels destabilize a memoir’s ideological message rather than merely authorizing it
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Contemporary literary fiction mediates speculative community as print did nationalism — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 405; A recurring physical landmark can anchor a novel’s historical longue durée — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 347; Interpolated canonical novels destabilize a memoir’s ideological message rather than merely authorizing it