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Medieval Greek storytelling : fictionality and narrative in Byzantium

Title
Medieval Greek storytelling : fictionality and narrative in Byzantium / edited by Panagiotis Roilos.
ISBN
9783447101059
3447101059
Publication
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014.
Physical Description
259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes
"The chapters included in ... are revised versions of the papers that were presented at an international conference ... organized at Harvard in December 2009...."--Preface.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2015
Series
Mainzer Veröffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik ; Bd. 12.
Mainzer Veröffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik ; Band 12
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Phantasia and the ethics of fictionality in Byzantium : a cognitive anthropological perspective / Panagiotis Roilos
Fiction and factography in the Life of St Antony / Tomas Hagg
Telōneia : the tollgates of the air as an Egyptian motif in patristic sources and early Byzantine hagiography / Saskia Dirske
Dressing up the past : fictional narrative in the Life of matrona of Perge / Sarah Insley
Apocryphal narrative : patterns of fiction in Byzantine prophetic and patriographic literature / Paul Magdalino
The marvelous flight of Alexander / Ioli Kalavrezou
The emergence of literary fiction in Byzantium and the paradox of plausibility / Anthony Kaldellis
The exegete as a storyteller : the dawn of humanity according to Eustatihios of Thessalonike / Paolo Cesaretti
The afterlife of Digenes Akrites / Elizabeth Jeffreys
Literary genres and mixture of generic features in late Byzantine fictional writing / Ulrich Moennig
Other worlds, other voices : form and function of the marvelous in Late Byzantine fiction / Carolina Cupane
Written dekapentasyllables and their oral provenance : a skeleton history and a suggested new line of research / Michael Jeffreys
The four-color tradition in early vernacular Greek poetry / Massimo Peri
Hopeful monsters of living fossils? : the Comnenian novels and their medieval and modern reception.
Phantasia and the ethics of fictionality in Byzantium : a cognitive anthropological perspective / Panagiotis Roilos
Fiction and factography in the Life of St Antony / Tomas Hägg
Τελωνεῖα : the tollgates of the air as an Egyptian motif in patristic sources and early Byzantine hagiography / Saskia Dirske
Dressing up the past : fictional narrative in the Life of matrona of Perge / Sarah Insley
Apocryphal narrative : patterns of fiction in Byzantine prophetic and patriographic literature / Paul Magdalino
The marvelous flight of Alexander / Ioli Kalavrezou
The emergence of literary fiction in Byzantium and the paradox of plausibility / Anthony Kaldellis
The exegete as a storyteller : the dawn of humanity according to Eustatihios of Thessalonike / Paolo Cesaretti
The afterlife of Digenes Akrites / Elizabeth Jeffreys
Literary genres and mixture of generic features in late Byzantine fictional writing / Ulrich Moennig
Other worlds, other voices : form and function of the marvelous in Late Byzantine fiction / Carolina Cupane
Written dekapentasyllables and their oral provenance : a skeleton history and a suggested new line of research / Michael Jeffreys
The four-color tradition in early vernacular Greek poetry / Massimo Peri
Hopeful monsters of living fossils? : the Comnenian novels and their medieval and modern reception.
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Conference proceedings.
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