People have always told stories. Across all eras and cultures, narratives have played an important role in social cohesion. The envisaged CRC\/TRR \u201cHistorical and Transcultural Narratology\u201d examines pre-modern (ancient, medieval, early modern) narratives from different cultural contexts with the aim of systematically and comparatively investigating the dynamics and functions of narratives in past contexts. A strictly comparative as well as historically and culturally sensitive perspective will be adopted. The CRC aims to develop a new historical-transcultural narratology that overcomes the bias of so-called \u2018classical\u2019 (and still current) narrative theory and its narrow focus on Western and modern\/postmodern contexts. The narrative theory that the CRC aims to develop is meant to be historically and culturally inclusive and flexible enough to capture different historical narrative formats and functions from very different cultural contexts, thus opening up new avenues for comparative, interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies on a global scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Methodologically, the CRC combines two current approaches to narrative research: historical-diachronic narratology and the transcultural analysis of narrative texts. The combination of approaches based on \u2018old\u2019 material and \u2018foreign\u2019 cultures differs fundamentally from the prevailing trends in narrative theory, which on the one hand focus almost exclusively on modern narratives (i.e. texts written after 1800) and on the other hand emphasize narratives that originated in Western cultures, with a problematic narrow focus on English-language texts. The planned CRC examines the spatio-temporal dimensions of narrative forms and focuses on narrative practices in a transcultural perspective beyond the biases mentioned. Such a comprehensive analysis of the historical and transcultural dimensions of narrative is all the more urgent as it has the potential to challenge the established Western assumptions of literary history, which are often deeply Eurocentric, and to replace them with a new understanding of narrative forms in their historical and global heterogeneity and diversity. The aim of the CRC is therefore to combine approaches and findings from the historical-diachronic study of narrative discourses with the analysis of narrative forms and genres on the spatio-cultural level of transculturality. The expected research results will enable both a comprehensive historical and transcultural comparison of narrative in a global perspective and offer a fundamentally new view of the genesis, variability, and functions of narrative forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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