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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Contents
- The Book of Jonah: A paradigm of the "hermeneutics of strangeness"
- Homer's portrayal of women: A discussion of Homeric narrative from an oralist point of view
- Orality, literacy, and the "readership" of the early Greek novel
- Memory, fictionality, and the issue of authority: Author-function and narrative performance in Beowulf, Chretien and Malory
- The marvellous North and authorial presence in the Icelandic fornaldarsaga
- Women and Old Norse narrative
- Repainting the lion: Chaucer's profeminist narratives
- The mimesis of change: Gascoigne's Aduentures of Master F.J. (1573)
- Archetextual palimpsests: Compositional structure and narrative self-awareness in L'Astrée and other French baroque novels
- Pragmatism and narratology: The case of Paradise Lost
- "That prerogative over human": Paradise Lost and the telling of divine history
- The beginnings of the epistolary novel in England
- Not being a historian: Women telling tales in restoration and eighteenth-century England
- "Worn by the friction of time": Oral tradition and the generation of the balladic narrative mode
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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