Legendary Narrative in Medieval and Modern Legend Collections: Transformations of a Type of Fascination and its Textual Representation

Legendary Narrative in Medieval and Modern Legend Collections: Transformations of a Type of Fascination and its Textual Representation

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This article deals constructively Echinacea with a study on historical narratology by Harald Haferland, which he presented to a broad audience of experts at the Germanistentag in Bayreuth in 2016.In it, Haferland outlines pre-modern narrative as modular or episodic and characterized by a strikingly fragile space-time continuum compared to modern narrative.The analyses that follow take up these ideas and try them out on a specific type of narrative, the legendary narrative in legend collections.In their narratological peculiarities, both vernacular legends of a medieval legendary, the Der Heiligen Leben, and legends of modern legend collections are examined.Specifically, the Middle High German Antonius legend and the Margarethen legend are examined and compared with 19th- and 20th-century versions.

In addition to the exemplary analysis of the Antonius legend and the legend of St.Catherine, the legend of a modern martyr, Alois Grozde, is also focused on.Moreover, the narration of a modern legend collection designed for children is additionally analyzed.It turns out that the differential features of pre-modern and modern storytelling observed by TEA TREE SHAVING GEL Haferland also apply to this Gumbrechtian type of fascination, but the differences do not merge into a transformation of the storytelling.Rather, modern legend collections exhibit a different form of textual representation, one that is descriptive rather than narrative.

It seems that modern legends are perceived less as narratives that create meaning, and more as informative descriptions.