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Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe.
This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer's influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose n...
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Narrative Developmentsfrom Chaucer to Defoe; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Narrative of Transformation; Part I: The Growing Sense of Self; 1. The Encoding of Subjectivity in Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and "The Pardoner's Tale"; 2. The Representation of Mind from Chaucer to Aphra Behn; 3. Writing Selves: Early Modern Diaries and the Genesis of the Novel; Part II: The Force of Intertextuality; 4. Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls and His Pre-Text of Narration; 5. From Hell: A Mirror for Magistrates and the Late Elizabethan Female Complaint.
- 6. Telling Tales: The Artistry of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania7. The Early English Novel in Antwerp: The Impact of Jan van Doesborch; Part III: The Consolidation of Genre; 8. Narrative and Poiesis: Defoe, Ovid, and Transformative Writing; 9. The Prenovel: Theory and the Archive; 10. Paratext and Genre: Making Seventeenth-Century Readers; Part IV: The Presence of SocialDiscourses; 11. Narrative and Gossip in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; 12. Transubstantiation, Transvestism, and the Transformative Power of Elizabethan Prose Fiction; Contributors; Index.