{"product_id":"the-narreme-in-the-medieval-romance-epic-9781442631243","title":"The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the combinations by which they can communicate meaning. The author here searches for a minimal structural unit in the literary narrative analogous to the phoneme and the morpheme in language structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a detailed analysis of the \u003cem\u003eRoland\u003c\/em\u003e and the\u003cem\u003e Cid\u003c\/em\u003e and twelve additional Romance narratives, Professor Dorfman's argument is that the structure of the medieval Romance epics may be analyzed into functional units which he calls \"narremes.\" He divides a narrative into two types of structure: the superstructure and the substructure. A narrative, by definition, is a series of incidents. All the incidents in the narrative, taken as written, form the superstructure. Analysis, how\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187498410327,"sku":"9781442631243","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-narreme-in-the-medieval-romance-epic-9781442631243","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}