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Current Issue
2025: Temporal communities in pre-modern short epics
Pre-modern short epics are based on fragments from a repertoire of mobile linguistic formulas and mental images: Motivic schemes, argumentative topoi, consensus-building proverbs and examples or performative speech acts and gestures appear as modular units, as variants of recognizable types at different times in different formats, in diverse traditions and discourse contexts. They form narrative and iconic structures that can be described as “temporal communities”.
The contributions in this volume make productive use of this open concept of textual “temporal communities” in order to trace the metamorphoses and journeys of such compact modules – such as magic spells and blessings, motifs, figurations and plot schemes – through time and formats.
Published:
2025-04-10
