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Evelyn Birge Vitz.
Medieval Narrative and Modern Narratology: Subjects and Objects of Desire.
Publisher: New York U.P., 1989.
Series: New York University Studies in French Culture and Civilization.
ISBN 0814787614.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 155×233×18mm.
Page count: x,228pp.
Main language: English; quotations generally given in original language with an accompanying English translation.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is rather creased with some grubby marks, ragged at the edges, with its spine faded; the book itself looks in generally good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price for paperback $21.00]
Weight without packaging: 488g.

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Presents reworked versions of some previously published essays.

Contents:
Abelard’s Historia calamitatum & medieval autobiography;
The ‘I’ of the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris;
Guillaume’s Roman de la Rose & medieval selfhood;
La Fille du comte de Pointieu;
Vie de saint Alexis — narrative analysis & the quest for the sacred subject;
Lais of Marie de France — ‘narrative grammar’ & the literary text;
Desire & causality — the Roland, Thomas’s Tristan, & Du segretain moine.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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