Julia Frick : Poetik der Kürzung . Studien zu Kurzfassungen in der mittelhochdeutschen Epik, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto 2024, 340 S. (Bibliotheca Germanica 80)

Key Points

• To analyze the techniques of summarization in medieval high German epic poetry.
• Literary analysis of medieval high German texts
• Examination of summarization techniques
• Review of previously published works
• Identified key summarization methods in epic narratives
• Highlighted the significance of brevity in storytelling
• Proposed new interpretations of summarization effects on narrative structure