Histoire du Roman Et de Ses Rapports Avec l'Histoire dans l'Antiquité Grecque Et Latine (Classic Reprint)

Histoire du Roman Et de Ses Rapports Avec l'Histoire dans l'Antiquité Grecque Et Latine (Classic Reprint)

Author: Alexis Chassang

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-14

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9780266313601

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Excerpt from Histoire du Roman Et de Ses Rapports Avec l'Histoire dans l'Antiquite Grecque Et Latine Sans doute, pour une histoire du roman chez les Grecs et les Romains, les documents font souvent defaut. Cependant les monuments qui nous restent, et les traditions qui nous sont parvenues, permettent de suivre le deve10ppement progressif de ce genre aux principales epoques de la litterature grecque et de la litterature latine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel

Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel

Author: Percy G. Adams

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0813161983

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Although much has been written about how the novel relates to the epic, the drama, or autobiography, no one has clearly analyzed the complex connections between prose fiction as it evolved before 1800 and the literature of travel, which by that date had a long and colorful history. Percy Adams skilfully portrays the emergence of the novel in the fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and traces in rich detail the history of travel literature from its beginnings to the time of James Cook, contemporary of Richardson and Fielding. And since the recit de voyage and the novel were then so international, he deals throughout with all the literatures of Western Europe, one of the book's chief themes being the close literary ties among European nations. Equally important in the present study is its demonstration that, just as early travel accounts were often a combination of reporting and fabrication, so prose fiction is not a dichotomy to be divided into the "adult" novel on the one hand and the "childish" romance on the other, but an ambivalence—the marriage of realism and romanticism. Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel not only shows the novel to be amorphous and changing, it also proves impossible the task of defining the recit de voyage with its thousand forms and faces. Often the two types of literature are almost indistinguishable; even before Don Quixote, Adams writes, many travel accounts could have been advertised as having "the endless fascination of a wonderfully observed novel." This study by Percy Adams will both modify opinions about the novel and its history and provide an excellent introduction to the travel account, a form of literature too little known to students of belles lettres.