Time-covering narrative

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As time covering narrative a is narrative and literary technique referred to, in which the writing time (= time required to read the text) approximately with the story time, ie the time duration in which the narrative takes place coincides.

The German Germanist and literary scholar Eberhard Lammert (* 1924) has one of the first literary scholars with its by Günther Müller supervised dissertation from 1955 ( types of narration tries) to provide a systematic description of epic narrative and so the experienced previously called immanent interpretation to oppose an analytical-functional methodology . His analytical core is the differentiating and systematic presentation of the "relationship between narrative time and narrated time", whereby he distinguishes between time-lapping (narrative time is shorter than narrated time) and time-lengthening (narrative time lasts longer than narrated time) narration in addition to time-covering and furthermore brings together various, often combinable, gathering forms and intensities that determine the “narrative speed” of a text.

Since the 1960s, Lämmert's analytical terminology has been regarded as elementary literary knowledge and has only recently been supplanted by the more systematic and more selective terminology of the French literary theorist Gérard Genette (who also gives particular weight to the structures of time).

In the narrative that covers time, speeches or trains of thought of a dialogical nature of individual or several protagonists are often reproduced verbatim and in the form of direct speech in the present tense and in the representation of the dialogue without interruption on the part of the narrator.

This form of narrative structure is mostly only used in individual parts of the text because of its epic length of the scenic representation. In particular, the prose of the literary epoch of naturalism (approx. 1880–1910) used this narrative structure, see also the related technique of the seconds style - an expression that was coined by the literary scholar Adalbert von Hanstein in his literary history "The Youngest Germany" around the To describe the literary technique of an extremely precise description of sensory perceptions, gestures, movements, noises or image sequences by the naturalistic author Arno Holz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Bleckwenn: Morphological poetics and forms of narration. In: Wolfgang Haubrichs (Ed.): Erzählforschung , Volume 1, Göttingen 1976, pp. 184-223.
  2. ^ University of Duisburg-Essen, Genres and Text Structures I