Pastourelle Fictionalities

Harris, Carissa M.

doi:10.1353/nlh.2020.0012

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“…Meanwhile, Harris's foregrounding of "the real and pervasive trauma of sexual assault" asks that we pay attention to the pragmatic ways in which pastourelle's fictions are put to use, both to naturalize "rape myths" and to act as "consolatory fictions for victimsurvivors." 4 Finally, Monika Fludernik's emphasis on the Institutionenmodell of studying fictionality, which is concerned with "the level of fiction's social acceptability" rather than the existence of its referents, stands as a challenge to the account of fiction I've just offered. 5 Fiction defined by its social value would fall on Doležel's pragmatic "sign-user axis" rather than on that between representation and world.…”

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What We Ask of Fiction

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Tale and Parable: Theorizing Fictions in the Old EnglishBoethius

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2021

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Scholarship has often considered the concept of fiction a modern phenomenon. But the Old English Boethius teaches us that medieval people could certainly tell that a fictional story was a lie, although it was hard for them to explain why it was all right that it was a lie—this is the problem the Old English Boethius addresses for the first time in the history of the English language. In translating Boethius's sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy, the ninth-century Old English Boethius offers explanatory comments on its source's narrative exempla drawn from classical myth. While some of these comments explain stories unfamiliar to early medieval English audiences, others consider how such “false stories” may be read and experienced by those properly prepared to encounter them. In so doing, the Old English Boethius must adopt and adapt a terminology for fiction that is unique in the extant corpus of Old English writing.

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Tale and Parable: Theorizing Fictions in the Old EnglishBoethius

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