Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel: Three Studies, from Chrtien de Troyes to Proust Mainini Lorenzo
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…
Specifikacia Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel: Three Studies, from Chrtien de Troyes to Proust Mainini Lorenzo
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 12th and 13th centuries, the novel text seems to be characterised by certain stylistic procedures adopted to represent a new narrative structure, 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, within its textual form, 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