A01=Marina Scordilis Brownlee
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Ambiguity
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Axiology
Bildungsroman
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Chivalric romance
Conflation
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Courtly love
Dante Alighieri
De amore (Andreas Capellanus)
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Divine Comedy
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Eroticism
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Fernando de Rojas
Fiammetta
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Georges Bataille
Heroides
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Illocutionary act
Incest
Jacques Derrida
Jean de Meun
La Celestina
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Lazarillo de Tormes
Literature
Lovestruck
Metaphor
Metonymy
Mikhail Bakhtin
Mortal sin
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Ovid
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Psychomachia
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Sentimental novel
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Superiority (short story)
The Decameron
Unrequited love
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Warfare
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691605685
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse. She shows how Ovid's Heroides explore the discourse of epistolarity in a way that exerted a lasting effect on Italian, French, and Spanish works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially on the fifteenth-century Spanish novela sentimental, or "sentimental romance." Presenting this proto-novelistic form as a highly original rewriting of Ovid, Brownlee demonstrates that its language model interrogates rather than affirms the linguistic referentiality implied by romance. Whereas the ambiguity of the sign had been articulated in fourteenth-century Spain (most notably by the Libro de buen amor), it is the fifteenth-century novela sentimental that fully grasps the existentially, novelistically dire consequences of this ambiguity. And in the process of deconstructing the referentiality that underlies romance, the novela sentimental reveals itself to be a discursively essential step in the evolution of the modern novel. Originally published in 1990.
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