Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

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Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe is written by Gerd Bayer and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136821252 (ISBN 10) and 9781136821257 (ISBN 13).

This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.