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Confused Epiphanies: L'abbe Prevost and the Romance Tradition by Carol M Lazzaro-Weis (Hardback, 1991)

Until w, Prevost's critics have had to resort to philosophical or biographical reduction to explain the many amalies and contradictions found in his works. By contrast, Lazzaro-Weis identifies the primary literary force that shapes Prevost'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 invations Prevost effected in the form.

Issn
0740-9257
Series Part/Volume Number
161
First Published
1991
Series Title
American University Studies, Series 2: Romance, Languages & Literature
Author Biography
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 Universitaet Saarbruecken, West Germany, and the Universite 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.
Date of Publication
01/07/1991
Country of Publication
United States

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