A History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrativeRansome, Arthur
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A History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrative
Ransome, Arthur
Fiction -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); Storytelling -- History
Urfé, Honoré d', 85.
VAN EYCK, Jan and Hubert, 41, 42.
_Vathek_, 231.
_Venus d'Ille, La_, 283.
_Vicar of Wakefield, The_, 86, 118, 119.
_Vingt Ans Après_, 212.
Virgil, 81, 86.
_Volsunga Saga, The_, 11, 240.
Voltaire, 202, 231, 274, 296, 297.
WAGNER, Wilhelm Richard, 196.
Walpole, Horace, 189.
Watteau Antoine, 61, 86.
_Waverley Novels, The_, 42, 187 _et seq._, 209.
Wilde, Oscar, 311.
_William Wilson_, 250.
Wordsworth, William, 42.
YEATS, William Butler, 236.
_Young Goodman Brown_, 267, 268.
ZOLA, Emile, 226.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Translation by Lady Charlotte Guest, 1838.
[2] The quotations in this chapter are from the translation by Mr. F.
S. Ellis.
[3] It would be possible to trace an interesting history of narrative
in verse from Chaucer to our own day. But although the names of
Spenser, Milton, Lafontaine, Gay, Goldsmith, Keats, Coleridge,
Wordsworth, Tennyson, Rossetti, which with many others come instantly
to mind, show how various and suggestive such an essay might be, yet
the purpose of this book would hardly be served by its inclusion. It
would be more nearly concerned with the history of poetry than with
that of story-telling.
[4] By H. de Luna, 1620. The earliest known edition of _Lazarillo_ was
published in 1553.
[5] From a poem by John Masefield.
[6] There is another picture of the same name and subject in the Duke
of Devonshire's collection.
[7] It is worth noticing as an additional proof of the close connection
between the story in letters and the feminine novel that _Sense and
Sensibility_ was built out of an older tale that she actually wrote in
epistolary form.
[8] From a poem by Lascelles Abercrombie.
[9] This is repeated with a new purpose from the chapter on Origins.
[10] The distinction between novel and romance made in the chapter on
Hawthorne is one of material rather than of form. It is possible to use
the material of romance in the form of either novel, _nouvelle_, or
short story.
[11] The novelette is not the same as the _nouvelle_, but simply a
short novel as its name implies.
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