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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... Ganelon and his son-in-law constitutes one of the essential features of the work. This narreme, in fact, governs the whole chain of subsequent events, and is to be found in all the epics studied by the author, and especially in the ...
... Ganelon, a high French official on an ambassadorial mission to the Saracens for the Emperor Charlemagne, conspires with Marsile, the Saracen chief, to trap and ambush Roland, who is in command of ... Ganelon's trial. Is Ganelon being tried.
... Ganelon being tried for the murder of his stepson? The trial itself leaves no doubt that Ganelon is actually charged with treason, for conspiring against Roland while the latter was on the king's service; Ganelon's punishment, being ...
... Ganelon treacherously conspires with the Saracens to ambush the Frankish rearguard; caught in the trap, Roland and his companions die; their death is avenged by Charlemagne. Each of the three outlines cited is accurate, reflecting ...
... Ganelon and García Ordóñez (“a little Ganelon”); 2/ similarities in the virtues ascribed to the heroes' swords and horses; 3/ correspondences in the acts of treachery, the subsequent public trials, the judicial duels and the eventual ...
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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