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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... Infantes de Carrión . If true , and it does not appear unequivocally so from the text itself , this must be balanced by the fact that it is precisely the wealth and reputa- tion of the Cid which make him so attractive to them as a ...
... Infantes to continue weighing the matter in secret . Emphasizing the importance of the plans of the Infantes for the development of the plot , the narrator calls attention to them in the first person . 1879 D'iffantes de Carrión yo vos ...
... Infantes for his daughters . " Dios vos salve , yernos , ifantes de Carrión , 2332 " en braços tenedes mis fijas tan blancas commo el sol ! Since he looks forward to the fight , as they do to Carrión , he gives them permission to stay ...
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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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