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Rezension zu: Pierstorff, Cornelia: Ontologische Narratologie. Welt erzählen bei Wilhelm Raabe. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2022 (= Studien zur deutschen Literatur, 229). 507 S. EUR 99,95. ISBN 9783110778274

For much of the 20th century, women were excluded from boxing in terms of both discourse and factual history. This is closely linked to the conceptualization of the sport: Boxing was – and to some extent still is – considered a ‘male’ sport. Nevertheless, since the end of the 20th century, a cautious…

While significant work has been done on the cultural, technological, and political aspects of professional wrestling, less attention has been paid to the specific strategies and methods by which narratives emerge within and across wrestling performances. This essay argues that professional wrestling…

Rezension zu: Jonas Grethlein: Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory. Towards a Critical Dialogue. Cambridge: CUP 2023, viii + 199 S. GBP 22.99. ISBN 9781009339599

This essay examines Diego Armando Maradona as a paradigmatic figure of popular heroism. Heroes of popular culture hold a derivative status in relation to other heroic types, as they continually recombine their features in ever-changing contexts. Building on and extending narratological and cultural-theoretical…

Über DIEGESIS DIEGESIS ist die erste interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung, die alle Artikel und Rezensionen als Volltext online frei zugänglich publiziert. DIEGESIS wird von Mitgliedern des Zentrums für Erzählforschung (ZEF) der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal (BUW) herausgegeben und von…