Trojanisches Erzählen. Narrationseffekte an den Grenzen der Diegese und einige Überlegungen zu den Regeln der Erzählkultur des Mittelalters

Abstract

This contribution is devoted to ‘narrative trojans’ – short, initially unremarkable ‘cameo appearances’ of extradiegetic voices within the diegesis, which however open up various interpretational possibilities upon closer examination. Concise narrator commentaries in the context of retelling (using examples from Erec[k]), are explored, as well as epigraphs oscillating between character discourse and narrator’s monologue (using scenes from ‘Wigalois’ and ‘Parzival’) and dialogues with narrative instances (using the figure of Frau Minne in ‘Iwein’ and ‘Meleranz’). At the same time, the contribution aims to provide a perspective for approaching latent regularities in Medieval narrative.