The Narrative Imagination: Comic Tales by Phillippe de Vigneulles - Paperback
The Narrative Imagination: Comic Tales by Phillippe de Vigneulles - Paperback
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by Armine Avakian Kotin (Author)
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
Author Biography
Armine Avakian Kotin is assistant professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
