TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mortimer,Armine Kotin
TI  - The narrative imagination: comic tales by Philippe de Vigneulles 
T2  - Studies in Romance languages
SN  - 9780813163710
AV  - PQ1653 .N377 2015
PY  - 1977///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Tradition of the Cent Nouvelles; 2. Sequential Models; 3. Comedy or Morality; 4. A New Realism; Conclusion; Appendix A: List of Short Titles; Appendix B: Classification of Adultery Tales; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Tales; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; 2; b
N2  - Philippe de Vigneulles (1471--1528), cloth merchant and hosier from the city of Metz, wrote a collection of comic short stories which he called Cent Nouvelles ou contes joyeux. The work constitutes an important step in the development of the nouvelle form in France. In an extended explication, Ms. Kotin analyzes the tales for the modern reader, historically, generically, structurally, and in terms of their human significance. Inscribed in a tradition of short narrative forms in late medieval and early Renaissance France, these tales remake or recast traditional narrative patterns into new forms
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