Narrative forms of the ancient and medieval worlds that mix prose with verse or frame a story in a particular way, including the Icelandic saga composed in prose with embedded verse, the Arabic maqama of rhymed prose and picaresque adventure, the prosimetrum that alternates prose and verse, and the dream vision in which a dream reveals a truth to the dreamer. A genre belongs here when its cited article places it in a classical or medieval narrative tradition. It excludes the heroic epic poems and the folk tale, which have their own groups.
Medieval and Classical Narrative Forms
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Dream Vision (Wikipedia)
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A dream vision or visio is a literary device in which a dream or vision is recounted as having revealed knowledge or a truth that is not available to the dreamer or visionary in a normal waking state.
Maqama (Wikipedia)
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The maqāma (Arabic: مقامة [maˈqaːma], literally "assembly"; plural maqāmāt, مقامات [maqaːˈmaːt]) is an (originally) Arabic prosimetric literary genre of picaresque short stories originating in the tenth century C.E.
Prosimetrum - Wikipedia
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A prosimetrum (plural prosimetra) is a poetic composition which exploits a combination of prose (prosa) and verse (metrum); in particular, it is a text composed in alternating segments of prose and verse.
Saga (Wikipedia)
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Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.
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