Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe PDF Author: Gerd Bayer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136821252
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Book Description
This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.