Conversations and Storytelling in 15th-16th-century French Nouvelles
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820468185
ISBN-13
9780820468181
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 11th, 2004
Print length
190 Pages
Weight
498 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 23.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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This book focuses on the role of represented speech in four short story collections from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France: the anonymous Evangiles des quenouilles; Martial d’Auvergne’s Arrêts d’Amour; Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron; and Noël Du Fail’s Propos rustiques. As a study of the narrative staging of the acts of storytelling and conversing, it raises issues of orality, aurality, and literacy, as well as of the processes of textual production, transmission, and reception. In addition, the conversational frame of these short story collections deliberately sets up questions about the accessibility and reliability of truth. While these collections claim to enter upon the path toward universal truth, the difficulty of such an enterprise is revealed through their very narrative structure, where the polyphony of opposing voices and divergent opinions is engaged by the very acts of conversation and storytelling themselves.
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