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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... appears as a stylistic variant of the narreme, but its secondary nature by no means detracts from its literary interest. (Similarly, the rolled r, a phonetic variant without significant importance phonologically, assumes.
... general (the Oxford text of the Roland did not appear in print until 1837). Additional evidence to support these views was later furnished by Bello, the Latin American humanist. In the second stage,9 introduced by Milá y Fontanals, later.
... appear unequivocally so from the text itself, this must be balanced by the fact that it is precisely the wealth and reputation of the Cid which make him so attractive to them as a father-in-law in the first place. What makes the Cid ...
... appear from the foregoing that the Roland and the Cid have at least one indubitable element in common: an act of treachery as the central pivot of the action. We shall expect to find that in each case the larger chain of events in the ...
... appears to be the entry of the Saracen troops into France under the leadership of Gormont and the renegade, Isembart. Since the latter is a French Christian turned Moslem, the war he has fomented must be considered an act of treachery ...
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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