The Renaissance Novelle (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Introduction
It is difficult to come to an exact definition of the Renaissance novella (plural–novelle) because of the rapid development of prose fiction in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. The novella is defined as a short, prose narrative, usually realistic and often satiric in tone. Novella is an Italian word deriving from the feminine form of the word for “new.” The quality of newness in the novella is, perhaps, best associated with the subject matter of the stories–novelle are based on current local events—with a...
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