Handbook of Diachronic Narratology

Contents
Introduction: Towards a Diachronic Narratology
Two Handbooks – Two Concepts? On “Diachronic” and “Historical” Narratology
First-Person Narration in Ancient Greek and Modern English Literature
Narrator as Dissociated from the Author in Russian Literature
Narrator’s Commentary in Czech Literature (1300–1900)
Characters and Persons in Russian Literature
Unreliable Narration in Antiquity
Point of View in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
Perspective in Narrative Texts of the European Middle Ages
Point of View in Russian Literature
Representing Mental States in Ancient Greek Narrative
Free Indirect Discourse in German and Russian Literature
Free Indirect Discourse in English (1200–1700)
Free Indirect Discourse in English (1700–Present)
Free Indirect Discourse in Medieval and Modern French Literature
Interior Monologue in Ancient and Modern Literature
The Rhetoric of Narration in the Early Modern Period
Trajectories of Plot in Icelandic Literature
Motivation in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
Temporality in Ancient and Medieval Literatures
Cohesion and Coherence in Russian Narrative Literature
Sequence in French, Italian, and Spanish Literature (1500–1800)
Suspense in Greek, Latin, and Spanish Literature
Suspense in Spanish Narratives from the Golden Age to the Nineteenth Century
Ekphrasis in Ancient Greek and Latin Epics
Mise en Abyme in the Baroque Era and in Modernist and Postmodernist Narrative Fiction
Mise en Abyme in Russian Literature
Eventfulness in Classical Greek and Latin Literature
Eventfulness in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
Eventfulness in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
Eventfulness in Late Antique Jewish Literature
Poetic Narratives: The Sonnet Sequence (1400–1900)
Poetical Narration in Russian Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Oral Storytelling in Ancient Greek and German Medieval Literature
Metanarration and Self-Reflexivity in Classical Greek, Latin, and Byzantine Narrative
A Diachronic Perspective on Metalepsis
Metalepsis in English Literature: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernism
Metalepsis in Czech Literature
Narrative Metalepsis in German and Italian Literature of Medieval and Early Modern Age
Fictionality and the Alterity of Premodern Literature
Fictionality in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature
Aesthetic Illusion: A History of ‘Immersion’ and Western Illusionist Literature since Antiquity
List of Authors
Index