Contexts Of Pre-novel Narrative: The European Tradition (approaches To Semiotics ; 114)

The Book Of Jonah: A Paradigm Of The Hermeneutics Of Strangeness / Hans Robert Jauss -- Homer's Portrayal Of Women: A Discussion Of Homeric Narrative From An Oralist Point Of View / Minna Skafte Jensen -- Orality, Literacy, And The Readership Of The Early Greek Novel / Tomas Hagg -- Memory, Fictionality, And The Issue Of Authority: Author-function And Narrative Performance In Beowulf, Chretien And Malory / Robert Weimann -- The Marvellous North And Authorial Presence In The Icelandic Fornaldarsaga / Vesteinn Olason -- Women And Old Norse Narrative / Else Mundal -- Repainting The Lion: Chaucer's Profeminist Narratives / Alastair Minnis -- The Mimesis Of Change: Gascoigne's Adventures Of Master F.j. (1573) / Roy Eriksen -- Archetextual Palimpsests: Compositional Structure And Narrative Self-awareness In L'astree And Other French Baroque Novels / Hans Erik Aarset -- Pragmatism And Narratology: The Case Of Paradise Lost / Gordon Campbell -- That Prerogative Over Human: Paradise Lost And The Telling Of Divine History / Thomas N. Corns -- The Beginnings Of The Epistolary Novel In England / Laura Visconti -- Not Being An Historian: Women Telling Tales In Restoration And Eighteenth-century England / Jane Spencer -- Worn By The Friction Of Time: Oral Tradition And The Generation Of The Balladic Narrative Mode / Thomas Pettitt. Edited By Roy Eriksen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [369]-372) And Indexes.

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The Book of Jonah in the Old Testament seems to offer an excellent paradigm for conducting a general inquiry into the presuppositions -what means also: the horizon of expectation  of an early narrative, maybe the oldest one in world literature.