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Article: Polyphonic narrative in early modern France: a question of literary history.
- Article from:
- The Romanic Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
- Author:
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The sharp distinction traditionally drawn between French Renaissance and Classical literature was based in part on the assumption that the defining genre of literary history was poetry--including verse tragedy and epic; if prose fiction is taken into account, the history of French literature in this period looks rather more complicated. Thus Gustave Lanson placed the most prominent novelists of the early seventeenth century--D'Urfe, Sorel, Mlle de Scudery, and Scarron--in his infamous category of the "attardes et egares"--that is, those writers of the period who did not "clearly indicate the character of the new age," or as we might say, failed to "get with the ...
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