2021: Special Issue 9: ›Time-frame-transgressions‹ in pre-modern narrative
The special issue is located at the intersection of three discourses of medieval narrative research by examining the interdependencies of ›time’, ›frame’ and ›transgression‹. Among other things, it looks at frictions between competing models of narrated time as well as short circuits between narrative time and narrated time, each of which is capable of transgressing previously established framings. The contributions are devoted to a hitherto little-noticed metalepsis of ›Erec‹, the relationship between time and transcendence in the Kyot digression of ›Parzival‹, the transgressiveness of the bull miracle in Konrad of Würzburg's ›Silvester‹, the narrativisation of time (dislocation) in the Brandantradition and in ›Mönch Felix‹, the drinking and counselling rituals of the Spielmannsepik as well as forms and functions of anachronistic narration in the ›Scotichronicon‹. Taken together, they emphasise not only the diversity of approaches, but in particular the cross-textual and cross-genre relevance of ›time-frame-transgressions‹ in pre-modern narrative.
