Research Catalog

Title

Reading the late Byzantine romance : a handbook / edited by Adam J. Goldwyn, North Dakota State University, Ingela Nilsson, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goldwyn, Adam J.
• Nilsson, Ingela
• Svenska institutet i Athen.

Description

xix, 347 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The corpus of Palaiologan romances consists of about a dozen works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narrate the trials and tribulations of aristocratic young lovers. This volume brings together leading scholars of Byzantine literature to examine the corpus afresh and aims to be the definitive work on the subject, suitable for scholars and students of all levels. It offers interdisciplinary and transnational approaches which demonstrate the aesthetic and cultural value of these works in their own right and their centrality to the medieval and early modern Greek, European and Mediterranean literary traditions. From a historical perspective, the volume also emphasizes how the romances represent a turning point in the history of Greek letters: they are a repository of both ancient and medieval oral poetic and novelistic traditions and yet are often considered the earliest works of Modern Greek literature."--

Subject

• Byzantine fiction > History and criticism
• Byzantine fiction

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "The present volume goes back to a conference held at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 27-29 November 2014, entitled 'Romance Berween East and West: New Approaches to Medieval Greek Fiction'."--Page xi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Note on the Late Byzantine Romances and Their Editions -- An Introduction to the Palaiologan Romance : Narrating the Vernacular / Adam J. Goldwyn and Ingela Nilsson -- The Categories of 'Originals' and 'Adaptations' in Late Byzantine Romance : A Reassessment / Kostas Yiavis -- Intercultural Encounters in the Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance / Carolina Cupane -- Dreams and Female Initiation in Livistros and Rhodamne and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili / Efthymia Priki -- The Acculturation of the French Romance Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne in the Byzantine Imperios and Margarona / Romina Luzi -- Chronotopes between East and West in Apollonios of Tyre / Francesca Rizzo Nervo -- Linguistic Contacts in the Late Byzantine Romances : Where Cultural Influence Meets Language Interference / Theodore Markopoulos -- From Herakles to Erkoulios, or the Place of the War of Troy in the Late Byzantine Romance Movement / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Troy in Byzantine Romances : Homeric Reception In Digenis Akritis, The Tale Of Achilles And The Tale Of Troy / Adam J. Goldwyn and Ingela Nilsson -- Herodotean Material in a Late Version of the Alexander Romance / Corinne Jouanno -- The Palaiologan Hagiographies :Saints Without Romance / Charis Messis -- Homosocial Desire in the War of Troy : Between (Wo)men / Stavroula Constantinou -- Literary Landscapes in the Palaiologan Romances : An Ecocritical Approach / Kirsty Stewart -- The Affective Community of Romance : Love Privilege And The Erotics Of Death In The Mediterranean / Megan Moore -- The Bookseller's Parrot : A Fictional Afterword / Panagiotis A. Agapitos.

Call Number

JFE 19-4429

ISBN

• 9781107187795
• 1107187796
• 9781316646540
• 1316646548

LCCN

• 2018022937
• 40028846966

OCLC

1039341907

Title

Reading the late Byzantine romance : a handbook / edited by Adam J. Goldwyn, North Dakota State University, Ingela Nilsson, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Goldwyn, Adam J., editor.

Nilsson, Ingela, editor.

Svenska institutet i Athen.

Other Standard Identifier

40028846966

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4429