Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editors’ Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. I Introduction
5. Foreword – Why Ambiguity and Narratology? 1
6. Ambiguous Narration – Narrative Ambiguity: Theoretical Reflections on Terms and Concepts 7
7. II ‘Text’ and ‘Text’-Producers
8. Beyond the Text: The Performative Mediality of Ovid’s Metamorphoses 31
9. The Author’s Speech: Empirical Perspectives on Speaker Attribution in Narrative Fiction 53
10. III ‘Story’ and Narrative Devices
11. Time and Ambiguity: Aesthetic Temporalities and the Ambiguity of Event in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder die Entsagenden 81
12. Poisonous Rumours: Creating Ambiguity in Death-Scenes in Tacitus’ Annals 101
13. IV ‘Fabula’ and the Narrative Content of Fictional Worlds
14. Visual Narration and Ambiguity: Two Case Studies 129
15. It Might Be Not Impossible: Negation, Ambiguity and the Role of the Narrator in Early-Modern Utopian Narrations 163
16. Facing The Other: Ambiguous Story Worlds in the Fiction of Susanna Clarke 189
17. V Narration and Communication
18. Ipse Dixit: (Dis)Ambiguating Quotations in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars 219
19. ‘If Anyone Among this People …’: Ambiguity and Multiple Addressing in Latin Literature (Plautus, Catullus, Ovid, Thomas Morus) 239
20. List of Authors 273
21. Index 275