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The Abbe Prevost's First-Person Narrators 1993 (Hardcover)
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The Abbe Prevost's First-Person Narrators 1993 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 306
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Amidst a revival of interest in the novels of the abbe Prevost,
this study addresses some of the interpretive issues that are being
raised concerning his work, namely what intellectual, moral and
aesthetic meaning should we seek in works that were designed as
entertainments, and should we persist in rating Manon Lescaut more
highly than the rest of Prevost's output? The narrative strategies
and types of distortion inherent in each of Prevost's narrators are
examined. More general observations are made on the mechanics of
Prevost's narration such as the deceptive rhetorical devices of
juxtaposing different accounts of the same event by two or more
narrators and the use of the double registre or separation of
narrator from protagonist. Other aspects of Prevost's fictional
technique are considered - for example, the extent to which he drew
upon contemporary traditions in the novel. Another important theme
is the relationship between Prevost's fictional world and the real
world in which topics such as other-portrayal and the handing of
time reflect the degree of unreliability of the narrator's vision.
Parallel episodes and interpolations are also used to illuminate
subtly the work's central themes. The latter part of this study is
dedicated to the moral dilemmas raised in Prevost's work in which
the world - and the author's heroes - appear to be governed by
three complex and often conflicting codes of behaviour - those of
religion, honour, and 'love' or 'sensibility'. In particular, the
problems of women are represented as well as the failure of the
heroic ideal amongst the aristocracy. In religious matters, Prevost
is revealed as a man of tolerance, ultimately concerned with human
nature. The Prevost who emerges from this study combines a high
degree of technical mastery with a serious moral interest in the
human heart. His demystification of the ideal of heroism and his
fragmented vision of the human personality are likely to appeal to
the modern reader. The powerful dramatisation of moral conflict,
familiar in Manon Lescaut, is indeed to be found throughout his
work.
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