Narrative transformations from L'Astrée to Le berger extravagant
By: Leonard Hinds.
Series: Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;; v. 24
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Urfé, Honoré d', 1567-1625.; Sorel, Charles, 1582?-1674.
Description: "In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's L'Astree and Charles Sorel's Le berger extravagant, Leonard Hinds examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist antiromance. By analyzing the literary conventions shared by both works, Hinds traces the transformation of poetic forms, courtly language, polemics, emblematic representation, and character depiction in Sorel's parody of the pastoral.".

"Basing his inquiry on Mikhail Bakhtin's and Julia Kristeva's theories of discourse, he focuses on the linguistic transformation of source texts in d'Urfe's pastoral and the altering of d'Urfe's language in the hands of Sorel."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-194) and index.