Title: Conversation and storytelling in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century French nouvelles /
Authors: Loysen, Kathleen, 1970-
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2004
Subjects: French fiction History and criticism.; French literature History and criticism; Novelle History and criticism.; Conversation in literature.; Storytelling in literature.; Novelle History and criticism.
Abstract: "This book focuses on the role of represented speech in four short story collections from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France: the anonymous Evangiles des quenouilles; Martial d'Auvergne's Arrets d'Amour; Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron; and Noel Du Fail's Propos rustiques. As a study of the narrative staging of the acts of storytelling and conversing, it raises issues of orality, aurality, and literacy, as well as of the processes of textual production, transmission, and reception. In addition, the conversational frame of these short story collections deliberately sets up questions about the accessibility and reliability of truth.