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Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel Three studies, from Chrétien de Troyes to Proust
By Lorenzo Mainini
Copyright 2024
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature. From its origins, in the vernacular cultures of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the novel text seems to be characterised by certain stylistic procedures adopted to represent a new narrative framework, which has no direct terms of... Read more
Foreword
1. Conjointure. Chrétien de Troyes, Servius and the Virgilian tradition
2. Books of stories and books of novels
3. Dreaming the incipit (towards Proust and the Rose)
Biography
Lorenzo Mainini is lecturer in Romance Philology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
