The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic: An Introduction to Narrative StructuresUniversity of Toronto Press, 1969 - 259 páginas In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the combinations by which they can communicate meaning. The author here searches for a minimal structural unit in the literary narrative analogous to the phoneme and the morpheme in language structure. Based on a detailed analysis of the Roland and the Cid and twelve additional Romance narratives, Professor Dorfman's argument is that the structure of the medieval Romance epics may be analyzed into functional units which he calls "narremes." He divides a narrative into two types of structure: the superstructure and the substructure. A narrative, by definition, is a series of incidents. All the incidents in the narrative, taken as written, form the superstructure. Analysis, however, shows that many of the incidents may be abstracted from the narrative without deflecting the story-line. On the other hand, other incidents reveal themselves as organically linked with each other, so they cannot be omitted, without destroying the story-line. These selected incidents are the narremes, which make up the substructure of the narrative. This method of analysis produces so interesting and surprising results, results which make an important advance in research in linguistics and Romance literature. Eugene Dorfman, as an orthodox structuralist, has focused strictly on the formal descriptions of the narratives; but his analysis leads into the great traditional problems of literary history, and in particular poses anew the problem of the origins of the epic. |
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... Alexander , the elder , was a grown youth before Alis , the younger , was born . Unwilling to vegetate in a life of royal ease , and resist- ing his father's offer of knighthood at home , Alexander sets off with some companions to earn ...
... Alexander , adding that he may have any request in his power to bestow , except for the crown and the queen . Alexander hastens to accept the cup , presenting it immediately to Gawain . He hesitates to ask of Arthur , however , the one ...
... Alexander , his heir ; a faithless servant , partisan of Alis , reports that Alexander has been shipwrecked and lost . Alis unknowingly usurps the throne . But when Alexander arrives in Greece with military forces to claim his rights ...
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Chapter One Function and Structure in the Literary Analysis | 5 |
Chapter Two The SubStructural Pattern of the French Epics | 17 |
Chapter Three The SubStructural Pattern of the Spanish | 28 |
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