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Narrative Transformation from l'Astree to le Berger extravagent (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 24)
Leonard Hinds
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Hardcover. In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's "L'Astree" and Charles Sorel's "Le Berger extravagant", the author examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist anti-romance. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations24 cm. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's L'Astree and Charles Sorel's Le Berger extravagant, the author examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist anti-romance. By analyzing the literary conventions shared by both works, Hinds traces the transformation of poetic forms, courtly language, polemics, emblematic representation, and character depiction in Sorel's parody of pastoral. Basing his enquiry on Mikhail Bakhtin's and Julia Kristeva's theories of discourse, he focuses on the linguistic transformation of source texts in d'Urfe's pastoral and the altering of d'Urfe's language in the hands of Sorel. Narrative themes, such as the echo ... Read more
In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's L'Astree and Charles Sorel's Le Berger extravagant, the author examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist anti-romance. By analyzing the literary conventions shared by both works, Hinds traces the transformation of poetic forms, courtly language, polemics, emblematic representation, and character depiction in Sorel's parody of pastoral. Basing his enquiry on Mikhail Bakhtin's and Julia Kristeva's theories of discourse, he focuses on the linguistic transformation of source texts in d'Urfe's pastoral and the altering of d'Urfe's language in the hands of Sorel. Narrative themes, such as the echo ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
203
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557532350
SKU
V9781557532350
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About Leonard Hinds
Leonard Hinds received his doctorate in French from Emory University in 1995. Currently an Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature at Indiana University, he is preparing a critical edition of l'abbe Francois de La Mothe le Vayer's Parasite Mormon, histoire comique. He is also studying the influence of free-thinking on French women writers of the seventeenth century.
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