Texts, Transmissions, Receptions: Modern Approaches to Narratives (Radboud Studies in Humanities, 1)

The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of narrative texts from a variety of perspectives. The word “text” is used here in the broadest sense of the term: it denotes literary books, but also oral tales, speeches, newspaper articles and comics. One of the purposes of this volume is to discover what these different texts have in common. The texts are approached from four main perspectives: New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Contributors come from diverse disciplines, such as Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, English literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Art History, Linguistics, and Communication and Information Studies, all united in a common purpose to understand the workings of narrative texts.

André Lardinois, Ph.D. (1995), Princeton University, is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Academic Director of the Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. His main research interests centre on Greek lyric poetry and Greek drama.

Sophie Levie, Ph.D. (1988), University of Amsterdam, is Professor of European Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is chief editor of a series published by Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome.
Her research focuses on 20th century European literary history.

Hans Hoeken, Ph.D. (1995), Tilburg University, is Professor of Persuasive Communication at Radboud University Nijmegen. His main research interests lie in the field of the persuasive effects of argumentation, rhetorical figures and narratives.

Christoph Lüthy, Ph.D. (1995), Harvard University, is Professor of the History of Philosophy and Science at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is particularly interested in the origin of the modern scientific disciplines, the evolution of natural philosophy and of matter theories, as well as in methods of (graphically) visualizing abstract thought and theories.

Contributors are: Benjamin Alexander, Guy Claessens, Sabrina Corbellini, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Anneke de Graaf, Laurens Ham, Hans Hoeken, Margriet Hoogvliet, Helen de Hoop, Lettica Hustinx, Camille Joseph, Bram de Klerck, Mark de Kreij, Tom Lambeens, André Lardinois, Sander Lestrade, Sophie Levie, Christoph Lüthy, Kris Pint, José Sanders, Rob van de Schoor, Wilbert Spooren, Els Stronks, Kirsten Vis.