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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... Poema de Fernán González, Gesta de los Infantes de Lara, Gesta de Sancho II de Castilla, and La condesa traidora; and four Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, Cligés, Lancelot, and Yvain. The theoretical part has ...
... Poema de Fernán González, Gesta de los Infantes de Lara, Gesta de Sancho II de Castilla, and the Condesa traidora. These eight French and Spanish epics, plus the Roland and the Cid, approximately 15 per cent of the medieval epics which ...
... Poema de Fernán González 3/2 Superstructure 3/3 Substructure 3/4 Gesta de los Infantes de Lara: Superstructure 3/5 Substructure 3/6 Gesta de Sancho II de Castilla: Superstructure 3/7 Substructure 3/8 La Condesa Traidora: Superstructure ...
... POEMA DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ The theory affirming the existence of a flourishing body of native epic literature prior to the Cid (in the Medinaceli version), of which only remnants remain, has met with increasing favor.1 It has even been ...
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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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