2018: Special Issue 1: ›narratio‹ and ›moralisatio‹
What does it mean when, in the case of exempla, fables, comical tales and fairy tales the moralisatio is at odds with what is narrated, when the evaluation contradicts or subversively undermines the narrated example, if a banal moral is added to a multi-layered story or if the moral is simply not transparent – in other words, when narrative and didactics do not interact but insist on their own meaning and each have their own claim to validity? The contributions in this special issue seek out these and similar contradictions between narrative with didactic aspirations and the moral conveyed in order to show how tensions and discrepancies between narrated story and lêre (teaching) result in a fruitful structural openness and multiple perspectives.
