Narrative Transformations from L'Astrée to Le Berger Extravagant

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Purdue University Press, 2002 - 203 páginas
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 myth, verbal disguise, discursive travesty, and cross-dressing are studied to demonstrate their adaption in the pastoral romance and its parody. Hinds considers the figure of the tomb and the motif of death as means to figure a Baroque notion of authorship and to express pre-Classical literary criticism. Finally at issue is the influence of this romance and anti-romance on the development of criticism of the novel and the formation of seventeenth-century French fiction
 

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Echoes of Desire and Intention The Mirroring of Utterances in Romance and Antiromance
14
The Distortion of Voice in dUrfés LAstrée
16
Sorels Voices in Le berger extravagant
19
DUrfes Echo
22
Sorel Echoes dUrfé
27
Verbal Travesty and Disguise Parody and Citation of Typified Languages
35
DUrfés Clowns
36
Verbal Disguises in LAstrée
42
Emblems in LAstrée
84
Sorels and Crispin de Passes Emblematic Portrait
92
Transvestism and Specularity Transformations and Travesties of the Self
100
Specularity and Physical Disguise in LAstrée
103
Narcissistic CrossDressing as Parody in Le berger extravagant
115
DUrfés and Sorels Tombs The Question of the Death and Birth of Literature
126
DUrfés Tombs
131
Sorels Tombeau des romans
138

Verbal Travesty and Disguise in Le berger extravagant
46
Sorels Clowns
47
Debates of Convention and Debates on Convention
58
Debates of Convention in dUrfés LAstrée
59
Debates of Convention and on Convention in Le berger extravagant
64
Experiments with Multiple Agency and Intention through Emblematics
80
DUrfe Sorel and the Emblematic Tradition
81
Narrative Transformations and Critical Appraisal
148
Appendix of Images
161
Notes
165
Bibliography
181
Index
195
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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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