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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

Name: A History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrative
Author: Ransome, Arthur

Ransome, Arthur

Fiction -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); Storytelling -- History

ARTHUR RANSOME.




CONTENTS


                                                                   PAGE

  PREFACE                                                           vii

                                PART I

  ORIGINS                                                              5
  'THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE'                                           19
  CHAUCER AND BOCCACCIO                                               31
  THE ROGUE NOVEL                                                     51
  THE ELIZABETHANS                                                    67
  THE PASTORAL                                                        81
  CERVANTES                                                           93
  THE ESSAYISTS' CONTRIBUTION TO STORY-TELLING                       107
  TRANSITION: BUNYAN AND DEFOE                                       125
  RICHARDSON AND THE FEMININE NOVEL                                  139
  FIELDING, SMOLLETT, AND THE MASCULINE NOVEL                        155
  A NOTE ON STERNE                                                   169

                                PART II

  CHATEAUBRIAND AND ROMANTICISM                                      175
  SCOTT AND ROMANTICISM                                              187
  THE ROMANTICISM OF 1830                                            201
  BALZAC                                                             217
  GAUTIER AND THE EAST                                               231
  POE AND THE NEW TECHNIQUE                                          243
  HAWTHORNE AND MORAL ROMANCE                                        257
  MÉRIMÉE AND CONVERSATIONAL STORY-TELLING                           273
  FLAUBERT                                                           287
  A NOTE ON DE MAUPASSANT                                            298
  CONCLUSION                                                         305

  INDEX                                                              313




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