Chapter VII: The Origins of Narration

Colin Riordan

From The Ethics of Narration: Uwe Johnson's Novels from Ingrid Babendererde to Jahrestage (1989), pp. 113-60, doi:10.59860/td.c7c023c

 Open access under:
CC BY-NC 4.0
CC BY-NC 4.0 logo

Part of the book: The Ethics of Narration

Colin Riordan

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 28

Bithell Series of Dissertations 14

Modern Humanities Research Association for the Institute of Germanic Studies

GermanFictionopen


Abstract.  Narrative develops its own momentum, although to be maintained it requires a regular supply of new energy. Nevertheless a number of particular objectives may be discerned in Gesine's efforts to recreate the past, objectives which must be examined if the Johnsonian narrative technique is to be explicated effectively.

Full text.  This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here:

Link to full text as PDF