Oral Storytelling in Ancient Greek and German Medieval Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Towards a Diachronic Narratology 1
4. Two Handbooks – Two Concepts? On “Diachronic” and “Historical” Narratology 5
5. First-Person Narration in Ancient Greek and Modern English Literature 16
6. Narrator as Dissociated from the Author in Russian Literature 41
7. Narrator’s Commentary in Czech Literature (1300–1900) 55
8. Characters and Persons in Russian Literature 71
9. Unreliable Narration in Antiquity 84
10. Point of View in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature 105
11. Perspective in Narrative Texts of the European Middle Ages 127
12. Point of View in Russian Literature 140
13. Representing Mental States in Ancient Greek Narrative 162
14. Free Indirect Discourse in German and Russian Literature 177
15. Free Indirect Discourse in English (1200–1700) 204
16. Free Indirect Discourse in English (1700–Present) 230
17. Free Indirect Discourse in Medieval and Modern French Literature 257
18. Interior Monologue in Ancient and Modern Literature 282
19. The Rhetoric of Narration in the Early Modern Period 302
20. Trajectories of Plot in Icelandic Literature 324
21. Motivation in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature 347
22. Temporality in Ancient and Medieval Literatures 371
23. Cohesion and Coherence in Russian Narrative Literature 396
24. Sequence in French, Italian, and Spanish Literature (1500–1800) 420
25. Suspense in Greek, Latin, and Spanish Literature 443
26. Suspense in Spanish Narratives from the Golden Age to the Nineteenth Century 459
27. Ekphrasis in Ancient Greek and Latin Epics 482
28. Mise en Abyme in the Baroque Era and in Modernist and Postmodernist Narrative Fiction 502
29. Mise en Abyme in Russian Literature 528
30. Eventfulness in Classical Greek and Latin Literature 550
31. Eventfulness in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature 574
32. Eventfulness in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature 597
33. Eventfulness in Late Antique Jewish Literature 620
34. Poetic Narratives: The Sonnet Sequence (1400–1900) 644
35. Poetical Narration in Russian Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present 666
36. Oral Storytelling in Ancient Greek and German Medieval Literature 684
37. Metanarration and Self-Reflexivity in Classical Greek, Latin, and Byzantine Narrative 710
38. A Diachronic Perspective on Metalepsis 725
39. Metalepsis in English Literature: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernism 751
40. Metalepsis in Czech Literature 770
41. Narrative Metalepsis in German and Italian Literature of Medieval and Early Modern Age 790
42. Fictionality and the Alterity of Premodern Literature 810
43. Fictionality in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature 833
44. Aesthetic Illusion: A History of ‘Immersion’ and Western Illusionist Literature since Antiquity 854
45. List of Authors 879
46. Index 881