Patricia Francis Cholakian (essay date spring 1969)
SOURCE: Cholakian, Patricia Francis. “The Two Narrative Styles of A. de La Sale.” Romance Notes 10, no. 2 (spring 1969): 362-72.
[In the essay below, Cholakian, emphasizing the lack of unity in Little John of Saintré, and investigates La Sale's incorporation of the elements of two distinct genres—the novel and the didactic treatise—in the work.]
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Every reader of Antoine de la Sale's Petit Jehan de Saintré must grapple with the lack of unity within the work. The...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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