Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

ISBN-13: 9780415879484 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 280 str.

Gerd Bayer;Ebbe Klitgard;¬Abar

Opis

This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic.

Spis treści

Selected Contents:  Introduction,  Ebbe Klitgård and Gerd Bayer  Part 1: The Growing Sense of Self  1. The Encoding of Subjectivity in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale and Pardoner’s Tale, Ebbe Klitgård  2. The Representation of Thought from Chaucer to Aphra Behn,  Monika Fludernik  3. Writing Selves: Early Modern Life Writing and the Genesis of the Novel, Miriam Nandi  Part 2: The Force of Intertextuality  4. Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls and His Pre-Text of Narration,William Quinn, William Quinn  5. From Hell: A Mirror for Magistrates and the Late Elizabethan Female Complaint, Anna Swärdh  6. Telling Tales: the Artistry of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania, Rahel Orgis  7. The Early English Novel in Antwerp: The Impact of Jan van Doesborch, Robert Maslen  Part 3: The Consolidation of Genre  8. Narrative and Poesis: Defoe, Ovid, and Transformative Writing, Gabrielle Starr  9. The Prenovel: Theory and the Archive, Goran Stanivukovic  10. Paratext and Genre: Making Seventeenth-Century Readers, Gerd Bayer  Part 4: The Presence of Social Discourses  11. Narrative and Gossip in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Neil Cartlidge  12. Transubstantiation, Transvestism, and the Transformative Power of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Christina Wald

O autorze

Gerd Bayer is Senior Lecturer in the English department at Erlangen University, Germany.

Ebbe Klitgard is Associate Professor of British Studies at Roskilde University.