Wann und wo ist nû? Literarische Strategien des Präsens-Gebrauchs (am Beispiel des ›Wilhalm von Wenden‹ Ulrichs von Etzenbach)

Philipowski, Katharina and Zeman, Sonja (2022): Wann und wo ist nû? Literarische Strategien des Präsens-Gebrauchs (am Beispiel des ›Wilhalm von Wenden‹ Ulrichs von Etzenbach). In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Vol. 144, No. 1: pp. 92-120

Abstract

What are the narrative functions of the present tense in medieval narrations? In order to address this question, the paper brings together linguistic observations on tense semantics and a literary analysis of (sic)Wilhalm von Wenden < by Ulrich von Etzenbach. It shows that the present tense can refer to three different kinds of (sic)now <, i. e. the (sic)discourse now <, the (sic)story now <, and the (sic)recipient's now <. In all three contexts, the present tense is not used as a narrative tense but rather indicates a speaker's voice commenting on the events. This leads to the hypothesis that the development of the (sic)narrative present < (as common in modern novels) is based on two requirements: The decoupling between the (sic)discourse now < and the diegetic world as well as the decoupling between the author and the fictional instance of the narrator.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 1
• Subjects: 400 Language > 400 Language
• ISSN: 0005-8076
• Language: German