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TELLING STORIES TELLING STORIES STUDIES IN HONOUR OF ULRICH BROICH ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY Edited by ELMAR LEHMAN N an d BERND LEN Z B.R. GRÜNER AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Telling stories : studies in honour of Ulrich Broich on the occasion of his 60th birthday / edited by Elmar Lehmann and Bernd Lenz. p. cm . Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English literature-History and criticism. 2. Narration (Rhetoric) I. Broich, Ulrich. II. Lehmann, Elmar. III. Lenz, Bernd. PR14.T45 199 2 820.9'23--dc20 92-1249 6 ISBN 90 6032 334 3 CIP No part of this book may be translated or reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. © by B.R. Grüner, 1992 Printed in the The Netherlands B.R. Grüner is an imprint of John Benjamins Publishing Co. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O. Box 75577 • 1070 AN Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • 821 Bethlehem Pike • Philadelphia, PA 19118 • USA TABULA GRATULATORIA AHRENS, RÜDIGER GLAAP, ALBERT-REINER Würzburg Düsseldorf BALD, WOLF-DIETRICH GÖLLER, KARL HEINZ Köln Regensburg BAUER, ROGER GÖRING, MICHAEL München Bonn BEILE, WERNER GRABES, HERBERT Wuppertal GieBen BODE, CHRISTOPH HÖFELE, ANDREAS Kiel München BÖHM, RUDOLF HÖLTGEN, KARL JOSEF Kiel Erlangen BÖKER, UWE HORNUNG, ALFRED Regensburg Mainz BORGMEIER, RAIMUND HORTMANN, WILHELM GieBen Duisburg BROICH, ALEXANDER HULLEN, WERNER München Essen BROICH, CORNELIA JAGER, ANDREAS München Augsburg BUSCHMEIER, MANFRED KAMPHAUSEN, EDGAR Bochum Essen DlLLER, HANS-JÜRGEN KLOOSS, WOLFGANG Bochum Trier ERZGRÄBER, WILLI KOHL, STEPHAN Freiburg i. Br. Bayreuth FISCHER, HERMANN LEHMANN, ELMAR Mannheim/München Essen FoLTINEK, HERBERT LEISI, ERNST Wien Zürich FRÜHWALD, WOLFGANG LENZ, BERND DFG Bonn Passau GABLER, HANS WALTER MAURER, KARL München Bochum VI SCHULZ, VOLKER MERTNER, EDGAR Münster Osnabrück MOHR, HANS-ULRICH SEDLÁK, WERNER München Bielefeld MÜLLENBROCK, HEINZ-JOACHIM SEEBER, HANS ULRICH Stuttgart Göttingen MüLLER, WOLFGANG G. SPÁTH, EBERHARD Erlangen Mainz OPPERTSHÁUSER, HEINZ OTTO STANZEL, FRANZKARL Dortmund Graz STIERLE, KARLHEINZ PACHE, WALTER Augsburg Konstanz PLATZ, NORBERT UNGERER, FRIEDRICH Mannheim München PRÜMM, HANS-JOACHIM VOGT, ERNST München München PUSCHMANN-NALENZ, BARBARA WEBER, HANS Bochum Wuppertal RECKWTTZ, ERHARD WEIß, WOLFGANG Essen München RIEHLE, WOLFGANG WESSELS, DIETER Graz Bochum SAWKINS, JOHN WINKGENS, MEINHARD Bochum Mannheim SCHABERT, INA WOLFF, ERWIN Erlangen München SCHABERT, TlLO WÜRZBACH, NATASCHA Erlangen Köln SCHIRMER, RUTH ZANDER, HORST München Bonn SCHNEIDER, ULRICH ZAPF, HUBERT Erlangen Augsburg SCHREY, HELMUT Duisburg CONTENTS Tabula gratulatoria V Preface IX Hans-Jürgen Diller Chaucer's Slow-Motion Camera - and What It Does to the Fabliau 1 Manfred Pfister ",Man's distinctive mark": Paradoxical Distinctions between Man and His Bestial Other in Early Modern Texts 1 7 Robert Weimann Authority and Representation in the Pre-Shakespearean Prologue 3 4 Theo Stemmler The Rise of a New Literary Genre: Thomas Deloney's Bourgeois Novel Jack of Newbur y 4 7 Elmar Lehmann Love Stories. Antony and Cleopatra Plays of the 16th and 17th Centuries 5 6 Ulrich Suerbaum "I repeat and repeat." Repetition as Structure in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe 6 9 Gerd Stratmann Undermining Public Opinion. The Function of Narrative in Fielding's Tom Jones 8 4 Erwin Wolff Falling and the Fall in Sterne's Tristram Shandy 9 7 Bernd Lenz Preachers and Preaching. EmotionaUsm in Eighteenth-Century Homiletics and Homilies 10 9 VIII CONTENTS Rainer Warning Philosophers as Story-Tellers. Difficulties of the Enlightenment with Morality 12 6 Werner von Koppenfels Of Ants and Aliens: Wells's The War of the Worlds as Menippean Satire 14 7 Erhard Reckwitz History as Romance, Tragedy and Farce. Narrative Versions of the Anglo-Boer War 16 3 Willi Erzgraber Common Traits of Chaucer's and Joyce's Narrative Art 18 8 Werner Wolf Can Stories Be Read as Music? Possibilities and Limitations of Applying Musical Metaphors to Fiction 20 5 Karl Maurer How Boris Pil'niak Came to Know "the Way" - Japanese - "Stories are Created" 23 2 Peter Firchow Austrian Auden 25 4 Laurence Lerner Totalitarianism: A New Story? An Old Story? 28 4 Raimund Borgmeier A Further Case of the 'Detective Novel Unbound'. Thornton Wilder's The Eighth Day and the Mystery Novel 29 6 Ina Schabt The Authorial Mind and the Question of Gender 31 2 Ulrich Broich List of Publications 32 9 PREFACE The group of illustriou s sexagenarian s welcomes a newcomer: Ulrich Broich celebrates his sixtiet h birthday. Fully conscious o f inflationar y tendencie s we nevertheless present him with a festschrift to honour and thank a scholar who, more than most of his generation, has influenced an d shaped the fortunes of German Anglistics in an era of almost revolutionary changes in the universities. Since 1967 when Ulrich Broich accepted a chair at the newly founded Ruhr- University, Bochum, and, since 1976 , as Wolfgang Clemen' s successor at the University of Munich, he has experienced the ups and downs of university reforms, the increase in student numbers and the cuts in personnel at two of the biggest institutes of Anglistics in the Federal Republic. As a dean at two of the most prominent German universities and especially as the chairman (1983-1986) and vice-chairman (1986-1989) of the Association of German University Professors of English (Anglistentag), Ulrich Broich untiringly and resolutely safeguarded the interests of the humanities within and outside the university. His special care has always been for the younger generation of scholars who suffered mos t from bureaucratic planning. An impressive list of dissertations and a number of habilita- tion theses testify to his success as a teacher who, moreover, actively promoted the introduction of new courses of studies and propagated, albeit with characteristic discretion, the inclusion of new fields of research and theoretical concepts into Anglistics. However, Ulric h Broic h i s no t onl y a respecte d teache r an d influentia l administrator but, above all, an internationally distinguished scholar. His oeuvre covers a wide field of subjects and includes contributions to major authors as well as to popular genres, from Shakespeare and the classical texts of English literature to the detective novel, science fiction, and the melodrama. Suffice it to mention the Studien zum komischen Epos, the Gattungen des modernen englischen Romans or his essays on intertextuality, and his work as an editor or co-editor of the highly respected journal Poetica, and of the newly established series, European Studies in English. X PREFAC E To than k hi m fo r hi s multipl e service s t o Germa n Anglistic s an d hi s achievement as a literary historian, colleagues, friends, and students have joined to pay tribute to Ulrich Broich with the following collection of essays focussing on a theme, 'Telling Stories", that plays an important role in his oeuvre. The subjects cover vast distances, from England to Japan, from Chaucer to Joyce, from genre to gender. Every festschrift is the product of a team. We have to thank our colleagues who accepted the invitatio n to contribut e a n essay and , without demur , met our deadlines. Many thanks are due to the pubhsher, John Benjamins, for his expert cooperation after the untimely death of Wilhelm Grüner. Last but by no means least, we cordially thank our assistants - Dr. Fredrik Heinemann; Birgit Leute; Lucia Vennarini, M.A.; Cornelia Wegener, M.A., in Essen, and Stephan Haslinger in Passau - who had to do the hard work and patiently persuaded the computer to satisfy our wishes and, we hope, the rigorous standards of the editor of Poetica. Elmar Lehmann/Bernd Lenz
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