4 – 6 pm (CET)

Venue:

Freie Universität Berlin

Institut für Englische Philologie

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Room: KL 32/202

Lecture with Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg/Einstein Center Chronoi)

This presentation will outline the major setup and results of the ReinhartKoselleck project “Diachronic Narratology”, which was funded by the German Research Foundation. The project has resulted in two special issues on diachronicity, one in Language and Literature 34.2 (co-edited with Olga Timofeeva), the other in Narrative 33.2 (co-edited with Irma Taavitsainen), both just out in May 2025; and in a two-volume study Developments in Narrative Structure: From the Thirteenth Century to the Rise of the Novel, due out in early autumn with Routledge. The project’s aim was to set the insights already hinted at in Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology on a more solid basis by presenting a genre-by-genre analysis of selected texts from major genres of narrative in English during the late medieval and early modern periods. The results are interesting for both narratologists and linguists, especially historical pragmatics scholars.