Widersprüchliche Figuren in vormoderner Erzählliteratur – Contradiction Studies

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Widersprüchliche Figuren in vormoderner Erzählliteratur

Edited Volume

Elisabeth Lienert

2020

Contradictory characters are characters whose internal characterization in the text is contradictory or who are designed in and as a contradiction to discourses and traditions external to the text. The volume contains case studies from Virgil to the early New High German prose novel and the modern reception of the Nibelungen, combined with methodological considerations in the field of tension between character narratology, dialog research, historical anthropology and discourse analysis. The peculiarities of medieval-early modern narrative (above all the trans-textuality of many characters and their connection to plot or script) become just as clear as the necessity of reflecting on epochal clichés. The contributions invite us to think further about contradiction as a category of character narratology.

BmE Themen – Heft 6

DOI: 10.25619/BmE_H202035

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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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