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Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Klitgard, Ebbe
Bayer, Gerd

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 11

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0415879485
ISBN13: 9780415879484
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 22 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 previous traditions of literary writing. A group of chapters presents the process of genre-making as taking place both within the confines of the texts proper, but also within paratextual features and through the rationale behind cataloguing systems.

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