Contexts of pre-novel narrative : the European tradition / edited by Roy Eriksen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eriksen, Roy, 1948- editor.

Series:

Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 114

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; New York, New York : De Gruyter, [1994]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Contents

The Book of Jonah: A paradigm of the "hermeneutics of strangeness"

Homer's portrayal of women: A discussion of Homeric narrative from an oralist point of view

Orality, literacy, and the "readership" of the early Greek novel

Memory, fictionality, and the issue of authority: Author-function and narrative performance in Beowulf, Chretien and Malory

The marvellous North and authorial presence in the Icelandic fornaldarsaga

Women and Old Norse narrative

Repainting the lion: Chaucer's profeminist narratives

The mimesis of change: Gascoigne's Aduentures of Master F.J. (1573)

Archetextual palimpsests: Compositional structure and narrative self-awareness in L'Astrée and other French baroque novels

Pragmatism and narratology: The case of Paradise Lost

"That prerogative over human": Paradise Lost and the telling of divine history

The beginnings of the epistolary novel in England

Not being a historian: Women telling tales in restoration and eighteenth-century England

"Worn by the friction of time": Oral tradition and the generation of the balladic narrative mode

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110870480

3110870487

OCLC:

1202624203