Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1988
Abstract
Noises play an unusually large role in Paul Scarron's Le Roman Comique (1651, 1657): there are over three hundred explicit references in the novel to some form of noise. Although noise is not commonly assigned a significant role in prose fiction, its substantial presence suggests that it may indeed have functions in Le Roman Comique beyond simply being a realistic or comic feature. I intend to show how noise is part of the narrative structure, and, furthermore, how it exemplifies and reinforces the tension between coherence and incoherence in the novel.
Publisher
Gunter Narr Verlag
Repository Citation
Ekstein, N. (1988). Noise and (in)coherence in le Roman comique. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 15(28), 33-44.
Publication Information
Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature