Narrative developments from Chaucer to Defoe / edited by Gerd Bayer and Ebbe Klitgard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bayer, Gerd, 1971-

Klitgård, Ebbe.

Series:

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 11.

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction--Technique--History.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History.

Literary form--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 narratives. Essays focus on how a sense of selfness or subjectivity begins to establish itself in various narratives, thus providing a necessary requirement for the individuality that dominates later novels. Other contributors investigate how forms of intertextuality inscribe early modern prose within

Contents:

Introduction / Ebbe Klitgard and Gerd Bayer

The encoding of subjectivity in Chaucer's Wife of Baths tale and Pardoner's tale / Ebbe Klitgard

The representation of mind from Chaucer to Aphra Behn / Monika Fludernik

Writing selves: early modern diaries and the genesis of the novel / Miriam Nandi

Chaucer's Parliament of fowls and his pre-text of narration / William Quinn

From hell: a mirror for magistrates and the late Elizabethan female complaint

Telling tales: the artistry of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Rahel Orgis

The early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch / Robert Maslen

Narrative and poiesis: Defoe, Ovid, and transformative writing / Gabrielle Starr

The prenovel: theory and the archive / Goran Stanivukovic

Paratext and genre: making seventeenth-century readers / Gerd Bayer

Narrative and gossip in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Neil Cartlidge

Transubstantiation, transvestism, and the transformative power of Elizabethan prose fiction / Christina Wald.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613442703

9781136821240

1136821244

9781283442701

1283442701

9780203830284

0203830288

9781136821257

1136821252

OCLC:

773564484