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Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative : The European Tradition

The European Tradition

By: Roy Eriksen (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 1993

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Introduction
The Book of Jonah: A paradigm of the "hermeneutics of strangeness"	p. 1
Homer's portrayal of women: A discussion of Homeric narrative from an oralist point of view	p. 27
Orality, literacy, and the "readership" of the early Greek novel	p. 47
Memory, fictionality, and the issue of authority: Author-function and narrative performance in Beowulf, Chretien and Malory	p. 83
The marvellous North and authorial presence in the Icelandic fornaldarsaga	p. 101
Women and Old Norse narrative	p. 135
Repainting the lion: Chaucer's profeminist narratives	p. 153
The mimesis of change: Gascoigne's Adventures of Master F.J. (1573)	p. 185
Archetextual palimpsests: Compositional structure and narrative self-awareness in L'Astree and other French baroque novels	p. 229
Pragmatism and narratology: The case of Paradise Lost	p. 273
"That prerogative over human": Paradise Lost and the telling of divine history	p. 283
The beginnings of the epistolary novel in England	p. 293
Not being an historian: Women telling tales in restoration and eighteenth-century England	p. 319
"Worn by the friction of time": Oral tradition and the generation of the balladic narrative mode	p. 341
Contributors	p. 373
Author Index	p. 379
Subject Index	p. 389
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