Les Promesses du roman

Poetique de la prolepse sous l'Ancien Regime (1600-1750)

by Lise Charles

Book cover: Les Promesses du roman

Extent: 666 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Series: L'Univers rhetorique

Series volume number: 11

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(May 2021)

ISBN: 9782406108726

Price: $50.00

Out of stock

Hardback (Published)

(May 2021)

ISBN: 9782406108733

Price: $99.00

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Because it tells in advance an event of the story, prolepsis runs the risk of ruining suspense; because it only evokes this event allusively, it may, on the contrary, help to create suspense. The book studies the paradoxes of this device, through a corpus ranging from the decade of the Astree to the last novels of Abbe Prevost.

  • By (author) Lise Charles