R. Carver
'True Histories' and 'Old Wives Tales': Renaissance Humanism and the 'Rise of the Novel'
Carver, R.
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Abstract
Taking Margaret Anne Doody’s The True Story of the Novel as its point of departure, the article argues that it is only by discriminating between different manifestations of fiction – by exploring discontinuities as well as continuities – that we can hope to disentangle the genealogy of the Novel. Following an examination of Renaissance diatribes against medieval romance and Milesian tales with a survey of the Menippean, encyclopaedic, and epideictic fictions that the Humanists favoured, it concludes that one of the main impetuses in the development of the modern Novel was the recovery and promotion of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica which allowed romance to be redeemed as prose-epic.
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Carver, R. (2001). 'True Histories' and 'Old Wives Tales': Renaissance Humanism and the 'Rise of the Novel'. Ancient narrative, 1, 322-349
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2001 |
Deposit Date | May 12, 2008 |
Publicly Available Date | May 12, 2008 |
Journal | Ancient narrative |
Print ISSN | 1568-3540 |
Publisher | Barkhuis |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 1 |
Pages | 322-349 |
Publisher URL | http://www.ancientnarrative.com/archive/antocvol01.htm |
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