Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: countless literary historians have set out to identify the authorial voice in the Heptaméron with one of the devisants} To embark on such a search is of course to risk negating the diegetic authority of the other nine story-tellers and to forget that Marguerite de Navarre is, after all, the creative force behind all of the devisants?How then is the reader to react to the polyphony of meanings resulting from the various narrative levels?^Can one distinguish the authorial voice from the plurality of narrative voices?Should one attribute the same diegetic authority to all the narrative voices present in diegetic (frame) and metadiegetic (inscribed tales) levels of the text?What is the relationship of the events and discourse of the frame to the same elements in the tales?And finally, to quote Mary Jacobus, "is there a woman in [the] text?""*
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Author: Deborah N. Losse
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2284097055