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"No detailed description available for ""Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative""."

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Author:   Roy Eriksen
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Edition:   Reprint 2020
Volume:   No. 114
Weight:   0.729kg
ISBN:  

9783110138832

ISBN 10:   3110138832
Pages:   407
Publication Date:   01 February 1994
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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