The Narrative Imagination: Comic Tales by Phillippe de Vigneulles

by Armine Avakian Kotin

Overview

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 early Renaissance France, these tales remake or recast traditional narrative patterns into new forms. Philippe de Vigneulles's tales constitute a "recit" of human life, supported by the sympathetic presence of the author and his beloved city of Metz.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813194776
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	12/14/2021
Series:	Studies in Romance Languages , #18
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	531 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Armine Avakian Kotin is assistant professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.