| Medieval Greek Storytelling: Fictionality and Narrative in Byzantium 1., Aufl. Edition Contributor(s): Roilos, Panagiotis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3447101059 ISBN-13: 9783447101059 Publisher: Harrassowitz OUR PRICE: $89.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Series: Mainzer Veroffentlichungen Zur Byzantinistik |
| Physical Information: 260 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written by eminent scholars in the field of Byzantine studies, the majority of the chapters included in Medieval Greek Storytelling: Fictionality and Narrative in Byzantium are revised versions of the papers that were presented at an international conference that Panagiotis Roilos organized at Harvard University in December 2009. The topics explored in the book cover an extensive chronological range of postclassical Greek culture(s) and literature, from early Christianity to early modern Greek literature, with a pronounced focus on the Byzantine period, as well as a variety of genres: hagiography, historiography, chronicles, "patriographic literature", the novel, the epic, and philological commentary. One of the main aims of the book is to shift the focus of current scholarship on fictionality from those genres that are traditionally identified as "fictional", such as the novel and the epic, to other literary discourses that lay claim to historical objectivity and veracity. By doing so, this volume as a whole sheds new light on the interpenetration of different, often apparently antithetical discursive categories and strategies and on the ensuing problematization of established demarcations between "historicity" and fictionality, as well as "objectivity" and imaginary arbitrariness, in diverse Byzantine literary and broader cultural contexts. |