Table of Contents
Frontmatter — 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
