The narrative discourse of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth.

Title: The narrative discourse of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth.
Identifier: AAI9510729
identifier: 9510729
Creator: Wadenpfuhl, Laura.
Contributor: Adviser: Richard C. McCoy
Date: 1994
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, English | Literature, Romance
Abstract: This dissertation applies modern narratology and reader-response theory to the following narrative fictions of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth: The Old Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, The New Arcadia, The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. Using the theoretical approaches of Gerard Genette and Dorrit Cohn, both multiple levels of narrative diegesis and the writers' abilities to provide variations on the presentation of their characters' many levels of consciousness are explored. The dissertation also examines the ways in which each writer's narrative strategies impact the ethical response of the reader to the narrative world of the text finding that both Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth give their readers very little ethically firm ground on which to stand.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.