2019: Brevitas 1 – Special Issue BmE: Concise storytelling
Researchers agree that one quality of pre-modern minor epic poetry is certainly its conciseness. What exactly is meant by this quality, however, often remains vague. Understandings of conciseness range from conspicuousness, formative potential and brevity to complexity of content, pointedness or a dimension of meaning that has yet to unfold. In this anthology, these different approaches are not artificially levelled out. Instead, different understandings of the phenomenon of ›concise narrative‹ are developed and utilised as examples for an interpretation of short fiction. The aim is to explore the interpretative potential of the concept of conciseness and to create new methodological approaches to pre-modern short fiction in particular.
Published:
2019-12-18
