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• Author/Creator:Mainini, Lorenzo, author.
  
• Title:Memory and narrative at the origin of the novel : three studies, from Chrétien de Troyes to Proust / Lorenzo Mainini.
  
• ISBN:9781032122229
  1032122226
  9781032122236
  1032122234
  9781003223641
  
• Publication:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024.
  
• Physical Description:x, 112 pages ; 23 cm.
  

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  • Call Number: PN3331 .M244 2024 (LC)
    
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• Notes:"Routledge Focus"--Cover.
  
• Summary:"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 technique' (i.e. the conjointure) by Chrétien de Troyes (12th century); 2 the book-form, namely 'the book of novels' as a concrete and material object that transmits the narrative text and involves it 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"--
  
• Other formats:Online version: Mainini, Lorenzo. Memory and narrative at the origins of the novel Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Young Feltrinelli prize in the moral sciences
  Young Feltrinelli Prize in the moral sciences.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Subjects:Fiction--History and criticism.
  Memory in literature.
  Narration (Rhetoric)