Handbook of Diachronic Narratology / / ed. by Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid.

This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successi...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory , 86
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 906 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Towards a Diachronic Narratology
  • Two Handbooks – Two Concepts? On “Diachronic” and “Historical” Narratology
  • First-Person Narration in Ancient Greek and Modern English Literature
  • Narrator as Dissociated from the Author in Russian Literature
  • Narrator’s Commentary in Czech Literature (1300–1900)
  • Characters and Persons in Russian Literature
  • Unreliable Narration in Antiquity
  • Point of View in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
  • Perspective in Narrative Texts of the European Middle Ages
  • Point of View in Russian Literature
  • Representing Mental States in Ancient Greek Narrative
  • Free Indirect Discourse in German and Russian Literature
  • Free Indirect Discourse in English (1200–1700)
  • Free Indirect Discourse in English (1700–Present)
  • Free Indirect Discourse in Medieval and Modern French Literature
  • Interior Monologue in Ancient and Modern Literature
  • The Rhetoric of Narration in the Early Modern Period
  • Trajectories of Plot in Icelandic Literature
  • Motivation in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
  • Temporality in Ancient and Medieval Literatures
  • Cohesion and Coherence in Russian Narrative Literature
  • Sequence in French, Italian, and Spanish Literature (1500–1800)
  • Suspense in Greek, Latin, and Spanish Literature
  • Suspense in Spanish Narratives from the Golden Age to the Nineteenth Century
  • Ekphrasis in Ancient Greek and Latin Epics
  • Mise en Abyme in the Baroque Era and in Modernist and Postmodernist Narrative Fiction
  • Mise en Abyme in Russian Literature
  • Eventfulness in Classical Greek and Latin Literature
  • Eventfulness in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
  • Eventfulness in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
  • Eventfulness in Late Antique Jewish Literature
  • Poetic Narratives: The Sonnet Sequence (1400–1900)
  • Poetical Narration in Russian Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
  • Oral Storytelling in Ancient Greek and German Medieval Literature
  • Metanarration and Self-Reflexivity in Classical Greek, Latin, and Byzantine Narrative
  • A Diachronic Perspective on Metalepsis
  • Metalepsis in English Literature: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernism
  • Metalepsis in Czech Literature
  • Narrative Metalepsis in German and Italian Literature of Medieval and Early Modern Age
  • Fictionality and the Alterity of Premodern Literature
  • Fictionality in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
  • Aesthetic Illusion: A History of ‘Immersion’ and Western Illusionist Literature since Antiquity
  • List of Authors
  • Index