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Brownlee The Severed Word
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Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental
E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6140-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse. She shows how Ovid's Heroides explore the discourse of epistolarity in a way that exerted a lasting effect on Italian, French, and Spanish works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially on the fifteenth-century Spanish novela sentimental, or "sentimental romance." Presenting this proto-novelistic form as a highly original rewriting of Ovid, Brownlee demonstrates that its language model interrogates rather than affirms the linguistic referentiality implied by romance. Whereas the ambiguity of the sign had been articulated in fourteenth-century Spain (most notably by the Libro de buen amor), it is the fifteenth-century novela sentimental that fully grasps the existentially, novelistically dire consequences of this ambiguity. And in the process of deconstructing the referentiality that underlies romance, the novela sentimental reveals itself to be a discursively essential step in the evolution of the modern novel.
Originally published in 1990.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix
PROLOGUE: TWO THEORIES OF UTTERANCE, pg. 1
ONE. Victim as Artist-Epistulae Herodium, pg. 23
TWO. Exemplary Counterfeit-El Bursario, pg. 37
THREE. Voyeuristic Betrayal-Elegia di madonna Fiammetta, pg. 58
FOUR. Mediated Discourse-Historia de duobus amantibus, pg. 70
FIVE. Failed Eroticism-Siervo libre de amor, pg. 89
SIX. The Untranscendent Vision-Satira de felice e infelice vida, pg. 106
SEVEN. Etiological Subversion-Triste deleytaçion, pg. 128
EIGHT. Pandered Words-Arnalte y Lucenda, pg. 145
NINE. Imprisoned Discourse-Cárce! de amor, pg. 162
TEN. The Book as Galeotto-Grimalte y Gradissa, pg. 176
ELEVEN. Language and Incest-Grisel y Mirabella, pg. 191
EPILOGUE: Physical and Verbal Violence, pg. 211
NOTES, pg. 215
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 255
INDEX, pg. 267
