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The Four Interpolated Stories in the Roman Comique: Their Sources and Unifying Function

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The Four Interpolated Stories in the Roman Comique: Their Sources and Unifying Function - de Armas, Frederick Alfred
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Seventeenth-century French author Paul Scarron's Roman comique has often been dismissed by critics as episodic and disorganized. This, in part, stems from four interpolated stories which Scarron included and which, according to many critics, have no relation to the novel's plot. Here, after studying the original Spanish versions of these nouvelles , Frederick Alfred de Armas argues that Scarron made changes to the originals to parallel the tone and underline the theme of the overarching story, thus unifying the novel as ...

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The Four Interpolated Stories in the Roman Comique: Their Sources and Unifying Function 1971, Unc Department of Romance Studies, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807891001

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