Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania

ISBN-13: 9780367881955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 254 str.

Rahel Orgis

Opis

Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth’s Urania in its historical context and explores the structural means by which Wroth fashions her readership. The book thus has a dual focus, at once on narrative art and reader formation. It makes two original cl

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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Entering the Urania through the Frontispiece

Abundance versus Lack

Reading the Lack of Prefatory Material

Reading the Abundance of the Frontispiece

Conclusions

Chapter 2: Narrator and Narratee: Guidance, Critical Sympathy and Discretion

The Gender-Neutral Narrator

Textual Guidance: Orientation and Cohesion

Sympathy and Criticism

The Art of Narration and Discretion

The Narratee

The Published First Part vs. the Manuscript Continuation

Chapter 3: Narrative Levels and Strands: Emotional Immediacy, Proliferation and the Promise of Closure

Narrative Levels

Narrative Strands

The Published First Part vs. the Manuscript Continuation

Chapter 4: Space and Displacements: Multiple Reading Modes and Tensions of Meaning

Reading Space and Settings

Spatial Movements and Travel Patterns

Chapter 5: Recurring Themes and Plots: Textually Inscribed Reflection and Debate

Recurring Themes and Plots

The Quest for Identity

Conquering and Defending a Throne

Love Matters

Courtship

Male Infidelity

Marriage

Supporting and Contrasting Inset Tales

Conclusion: Interpretive Freedom vs. Closure – The Story of Drusio and Isabella

Appendix

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

O autorze

Rahel Orgis is a postdoctoral researcher on behalf of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and coordinator for the English doctoral programme of CUSO (Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale).