Über die Grenze: Metalepse in Text- und Bildmedien des Altertums

There has been little previous research in ancient studies on the narratological notion of metalepses. The essays in this volume describe the forms, functions, and effects of metalepses in texts and artifacts. The authors demonstrate the diversity and ubiquity of metalepses as they occur in Akkadian and Egyptian literature, in the Hebrew Bible, in rabbinical Midrashim, in ancient pagan literature of all periods, and in early Christian literature.

Das narratologische Konzept der Metalepse ist für das Altertum weitgehend unerforscht. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beschreiben die Metalepse in ihren Formen, Funktionen und Wirkungen in Texten und Artefakten. Sie zeigen, wie vielgestaltig Metalepsen in akkadischer undägyptischer Literatur, in der hebräischen Bibel und in rabbinischen Midraschim, in paganer antiker Literatur aller Epochen und in frühchristlicher Literatur zu finden sind.

The Narratologia series publishes state-of-the-art monographs and collective volumes devoted to modern narrative theory and its historical reconstruction in all the philological disciplines. It is the first narratological forum of its kind in Germany. In addition to literary texts, the series focuses on narration in everyday contexts, in pictorial media, in film and in the new media as well as on narration in historiography, ethnology, medicine, and the law. The series publishes in German and English. All volumes are peer reviewed by two anonymous assessors.