The Severed Word Ovid s Heroides and the Novela Sentimental 1st Edition by Marina Scordilis Brownlee ISBN 978-0691605685 0691605688

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ISBN 10:   0691605688

ISBN 13: 978-0691605685

Author: Marina Scordilis Brownlee

In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter–often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity–in the establishment of novelistic discourse. She shows how Ovid’s Heroides explore the discourse of epistolarity in a way that exerted a lasting effect on Italian, French, and Spanish works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially on the fifteenth-century Spanish novela sentimental, or “sentimental romance.” Presenting this proto-novelistic form as a highly original rewriting of Ovid, Brownlee demonstrates that its language model interrogates rather than affirms the linguistic referentiality implied by romance. Whereas the ambiguity of the sign had been articulated in fourteenth-century Spain (most notably by the Libro de buen amor), it is the fifteenth-century novela sentimental that fully grasps the existentially, novelistically dire consequences of this ambiguity. And in the process of deconstructing the referentiality that underlies romance, the novela sentimental reveals itself to be a discursively essential step in the evolution of the modern novel.

Originally published in 1990.

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Table of contents: 

PART ONE: EPISTOLARY ANATOMY

1. ONE VICTIM AS ARTIST (EPISTULAE HERODIUM)

2. TWO EXEMPLARY COUNTERFEIT (EL BURSARIO)

3. THREE VOYEURISTIC BETRAYAL (ELEGIA DI MADONNA FIAMMETTA)

4. FOUR MEDIATED DISCOURSE (HISTORIA DE DUOBUS AMANTIBUS)

PART TWO: THE ALLEGORICAL PARADOX
5. FIVE FAILED EROTICISM (SIERVO LIBRE DE AMOR)
6. SIX THE UNTRANSCENDENT VISION (SATIRA DE FELICE E INFELICE VIDA)
7. SEVEN ETIOLOGICAL SUBVERSION (TRISTE DELEYTAÇION)

PART THREE: LINGUISTIC TRANSGRESSIONS
8. EIGHT PANDERED WORDS (ARNALTE Y LUCENDA)
9. NINE IMPRISONED DISCOURSE (CÁRCEL DE AMOR)
10. TEN THE BOOK AS GALEOTTO (GRIMALTE Y GRADISSA)
11. ELEVEN LANGUAGE AND INCEST (GRISEL Y MIRABELLA)

EPILOGUE
12. PHYSICAL AND VERBAL VIOLENCE

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