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Orphic Voice(s): A Narratological Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses 10.1-11.84
The book offers an in-depth narratological analysis of the 'Book of Orpheus' (10.1-11.84) of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Starting from fundamental aspects of narrative like time, space, and focalisation, the commentary highlights the polyphony of the various narrative levels. The complex and challenging design results from a constant oscillation between the narrator-persona of Ovid and the programmatic Orpheus-figure which has found a wealth of interpretations. In addition, the study places the 10th book in the overall narrative framework of Ovid's Metamorphoses with its density of intertextuality and metanarrativity.
Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus' Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479)
This Narratological Commentary on Silius' Battle of Ticinuslays bare the narrative form of the text by addressing numerous narratological aspects, including plot-development, focalization, space, and intertextuality. The book also focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity with its dynamic processes of (un-)strategic production, perception, and resolution. Ambiguity is a central feature of the Punica because of the epic's constant oscillation between fact and fiction: it treats the changing fortunes of war and the tension between Rome and Carthage, which Silius translates into a moment of poetical equilibrium by his paradoxical problematization of triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.
Structures of Epic Poetry
This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Ambiguity and Narratology
As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. However, within this context, it has been observed that words or expressions situated within the artistic framework of storytelling have not yet been at the centre of research interest. This book aims to bridge this gap by examining the phenomenon of ambiguity from the perspective of narratology – understood as a general theory of narration and narrative communication. The volume pursues two goals: Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that the interdisciplinary combination of linguistics, cultural history and narratology enriches the field of litera...
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Gewalt und Unmaking in Lucans Bellum Civile
In Gewalt und Unmaking in Lucans Bellum Civile entwickelt Hans-Peter Nill einen theoretischen Zugang zu zentralen Gewaltdarstellungen in Lucans Bürgerkriegsepos. Hierfür verknüpft er narratologische, wirkungsästhetische und soziologische Theorien und Methoden. Im Zentrum der Analysen stehen die Formen und Modalitäten der narrativ repräsentierten Gewalt. Ziel ist, ‚Lucanische Gewalt‘ als vielschichtiges, offenes Gebilde herauszustellen und sich von einer Reduzierung auf vermeintlich ‚typische‘ Partien zu distanzieren. Die Studie unternimmt den Versuch aufzuzeigen, dass über den Hebel der Gewalt erzählte Welt (fabula) und narrative Repräsentation (story) in eine dynamische Wec...
