Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bayer, Gerd; Klitgard, Ebbe

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-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. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136821257
• Artikelnr.: 38279834

Autorenporträt

Gerd Bayer is Senior Lecturer in the English department at Erlangen University, Germany. Ebbe Klitgard is Associate Professor of British Studies at Roskilde University.

Inhaltsangabe

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