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| Lazzaro-Weis, Carol M. |
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| Confused Epiphanies |
| L'abbé Prévost and the Romance Tradition |
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American University Studies
Series 2: Romance Languages and Literature  Vol. 161 |
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| Year of Publication: 1991 |
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| New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1991. 195 pp. |
| ISBN 978-0-8204-1459-1 / US-ISBN 978-0-8204-1459-1 hardback |
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| Book synopsis |
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| Until now, Prévost's critics have had to resort to philosophical or biographical reduction to explain the many anomalies and contradictions found in his works. By contrast, Lazzaro-Weis identifies the primary literary force that shapes Prévost's fiction as the romance. She traces the tradition from its beginning in the early Greek and Roman prose narratives through its permutations in selected sixteenth and seventeenth century French and Italian romances. Lazzaro-Weis then reads Cleveland and Le Doyen de Killerine in detail and shows how these works need to be read as romances if critics are to understand and appreciate the displacements and innovations Prévost effected in the form. |
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| About the author(s)/editor(s) |
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| The Author: Carol M. Lazzaro-Weis is an Associate Professor of French and Italian and Director of the Honors College at Southern University, Baton Rouge. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at the Universität Saarbrücken, West Germany, and the Université de Dijon, France. At present, she is at the University of Rome on Fulbright and ACLS grants to complete research on contemporary Italian women's writing. |
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