Research Catalog

Title

Conversation and storytelling in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century French nouvelles / Kathleen Loysen.

Author

Loysen, Kathleen, 1970-

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2004.

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Details

Description

190 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This book focuses on the role of represented speech in four short story collections from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France: the anonymous Evangiles des quenouilles; Martial d'Auvergne's Arrets d'Amour; Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron; and Noel Du Fail's Propos rustiques. As a study of the narrative staging of the acts of storytelling and conversing, it raises issues of orality, aurality, and literacy, as well as of the processes of textual production, transmission, and reception. In addition, the conversational frame of these short story collections deliberately sets up questions about the accessibility and reliability of truth.
• While these collections claim to enter upon the path toward universal truth, the difficulty of such an enterprise is revealed through their very narrative struture, where the polyphony of opposing voices and divergent opinions is engaged by the very acts of conversation and storytelling themselves."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Currents in comparative romance languages and literatures, 0893-5963 ; v. 129

Uniform Title

Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures v. 129.

Alternative Title

Conversations and storytelling in 15th- and 16th-century French nouvelles

Subject

• Martial d'Auvergne
• Margarete Navarra, Königin 1492-1549
• Margarete Navarra, Königin 1492-1549
• Martial d'Auvergne 1430-1508
• Du Fail, Noël 1520-1591
• Du Fail, Noël
• To 1599
• French fiction > To 1500 > History and criticism
• French literature > 16th century > History and criticism
• Novelle > History and criticism
• Conversation in literature
• Storytelling in literature
• Novelle > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Les Evangiles Des Quenouilles "Prenez le tout estre dit et escript" -- Les Arrets D'Amour ... les arrestz luy oy dire, Je les ay escrips" -- L'Heptameron "Ceste histoire fut bien ecoutee ... elle ... engendra diverses oppinions" -- Les Propos Rustiques "Les Propos d'aucuns Rustiques ... nous sont en main."

ISBN

0820468185

LCCN

2003011281^^

OCLC

• 52272692
• SCSB-10799703

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library