The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic: An Introduction to Narrative StructuresUniversity of Toronto Press, 1969 M12 15 - 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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... Erec et Enide, Cligés, Lancelot, and Yvain. The theoretical part has been presented first, in the interest of exposition. In actuality, however, the theory of the narreme evolved slowly and inductively, from the analysis of the texts ...
... Erec et Enide: Superstructure 4/4 The White Stag Contest 4/5 The Lovers'Quarrel 4/6 Form and Function – Major and Minor Narremes 4/7 Substructure 4/8 Cligés: Part I – Superstructure 4/9 Part II – Superstructure 4/10 The Double-Core ...
... Erec et Enide, Cligés, Lancelot, Yvain, and Perceval, which are undoubtedly his work (though he seems3 to have left the ending of the Lancelot to be completed by a certain Godefroi de Leigni, and to have died during the composition of ...
... Erec and Enide, and asks his shy, submissive daughter to care for the stranger's horse. At table, Erec inquires about Enide's appearance; the venerable vavasseur explains how the wars have wasted his resources, declaring nonetheless ...
... Erec promises that, if he may borrow arms, he will defeat the knight, win the prize for Enide, and make her queen of three cities. Victorious in the combat with the Blue and Gold Knight, Erec determines to take Enide back to King ...
Contenido
The Family Quarrel | |
The Insult | |
The Act of Treachery | |
The Punishment | |
Prologue and Family Quarrel | |
The Insult | |
The Act of Treachery | |
The Punishment | |
Comparison | |
Chapter Fourteen Conclusion | |
Index | |
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