Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative
Subtitle: The European Tradition (Approaches to Semiotics ; 114)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: May 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9783110138832
Subjects: Linguistic semiotics; Literary studies: general; Literary theory; History and criticism; European literature
First sentence: The Book of Jonah in the Old Testament seems to offer an excellent paradigm for conducting a general inquiry into the presuppositions -what means also: the horizon of expectation  of an early narrative, maybe the oldest one in world literature.