Sorry to have sent this incomplete message.  My fingers are not as fast as my thoughts.... gp

Briefly,

Indo-Europeanists interested not only in IE linguistics, but also in IE poetics, also have spent much time on inherited narrative techniques in IE narrative texts.  See Calvert Watkins, Rudiger Schmitt, et al.  They have long known of the historical links between classical Indian narrative techniques and related techniques in other IE traditions.

We find in the Bhagavad Gita, for example, heavy use of chiasmus [ a pattern: abccba, etc], just as in the Homeric epics.

I could go on and on, but I need to get on

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:52 PM, George Thompson <gthomgt@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear List,

Narratology has roots not only in German scholarship, as Dipak has pointed out.  It also has deep roots in Russian semiotics [see Propp, Jakobson, Lotman, Ivanov, and Toporov et al.]. Two important Indologists had deep connections with this school: T. Elizarenkova and Boris Oguibenine,  who is, I think, still a member of this list.  Narratology was also nurtured by French scholars, influenced by Levi-Strauss and his brand of structuralism.

Indo-Europeanists interested not only in IE linguistics, but also in IE poetics, also have spent much tim

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004@gmail.com> wrote:

1.9.14

German philology has the term Rahmen-erzählung literally 'Frame narration'. I am speaking from unrecorded memory. It was discussed by some acquaintances including me long ago. I do not remember the context and the sequel. It neatly defines the Indian narration structure. This may be probed into. There is no dearth of knowledgeable German friends who might help.

Best

DB

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Harsha Dehejia <harshadehejia@hotmail.com> wrote:

Friends:

One of my students is working on Narratalogy in the Indian Tradition.

While we have enough information on how stories are told, we seem to be lacking information on how stories are structured.

Any help would be most helpful.

Kind regards,

Harsha 

Prof. Harsha V. Dehajia

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