
Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel
Three studies, from Chretien de Troyes to Proust
Lorenzo Mainini(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-032-12223-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 comparison in the previous literary tradition. Indeed, the novel, as a 'textual machine', often produces a 'narrative manipulation' of time and duration, to the point of establishing, along its development, a very close link between History, individual memory and a prospective narrative future. This book explores some structural and formal paths of the 'novelistic machine', through three exemplary cases: (1) the 'name of the novel' at the origins of the literary genre, with the invention of a new 'novelistic technique' (i.e. the conjointure) by Chretien de Troyes (twelfth century); (2) the bookform, namely, 'the book of novels' as a concrete and material object that transmits the narrative text and involves itself within the fictional universe; (3) the literary topos of the 'dreaming incipit' and its long history from the Roman de la rose to Proust. This book will be of significant interest to students and scholars of medieval literature, the history of the novel and philology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
167 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-12223-6 (9781032122236)
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Three studies, from Chretien de Troyes to Proust
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Three studies, from Chretien de Troyes to Proust
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Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel
Three studies, from Chretien de Troyes to Proust
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Lorenzo Mainini is lecturer in Romance Philology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Content
Foreword 1. Conjointure. Chretien de Troyes, Servius and the Virgilian tradition 2. Books of stories and books of novels 3. Dreaming the incipit (towards Proust and the Rose)