Research Catalog

Title

Storytelling in Byzantium : narratological approaches to Byzantine texts and images / edited by Charis Messis, Margaret Mullett & Ingela Nilsson.

Publication

• [Uppsala, Sweden] : Uppsala University, [2018]
• ©2018

Supplementary Content

cover image

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Additional Authors

• Messēs, Charēs
• Mullett, Margaret
• Nilsson, Ingela

Description

x, 318 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia ; 19

Uniform Title

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia ; 19.

Subject

• To 1500
• Byzantine literature > History and criticism
• Narration (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500
• Storytelling > Byzantine Empire
• Byzantine literature
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Storytelling
• Byzantine Empire

Genre/Form

• Literary criticism.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Contributions chiefly in English; four in French.

Contents

1. Byzantine storytelling and modern narratology: an introduction, p.1 -- SPACE AND STORYWORLDS -- 2. 'Telling spaces' in Byzantium: ekphraseis, place-making and 'thick description', p.15 / Myrto Veikou -- 3. Un chevalier voit les voiles de soie: la voix narrative et l'espace byzantin dans Partonopeu de Blois, p.33/ Ellen Söderblom Saarela -- 4. Letters and space: function and models of epistolary nodes in Serbian hagiography, p.53 / Milan Vukasinovic -- 5. Ideological storyworld in Byzantium and Armenia: histography and model selves in narratives of insurrection, p.71 / Annalinden Weller -- LITURGIAL AND HAGIOGRAPHICAL STORYTELLING -- 6. Dramatic narratives and recognition in the kontakia of Romanos the Melodist, p.91 / Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen -- 7. A 'euchologic' narrative in Byzantium? Towards a narratological approach to Kassia's female liturgical poety, p.111 / Laura Borghetti -- 8. Saints in disguise: Performance in the Life of John Kalyvites (BHG 868), the Life of Theodora of Alexandria (BHG 1727) and the Life of Symeon Salos (BHG 1677), p.137 / Julie Van Pelt -- 9. Changing the rhythm to change the society: narrative time in the Life of John Vatatzes (BHG 933), p.159 / Lorenzo M. Ciolfi -- 10. Structure et tension narrative dans les cycles parietaux de la Passion du Christ a l'epoque tardobyzantine: le role des apotres, p.17/ Judith Soria -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL, POLITICAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES -- 11. Une lecture subversive de la Vie de Basile est-elle possible? Strategies narratives et objectifs politiques a la cour de Constantin VII Porphyrogenete, p.201 / Charis Messis -- 12. Constructing memory: the Chronicle of Theophanes on the reign of Heraclius, p.223 / Anastasia Sirotenko -- 13. Le roman de Thebes: l'autocitation comme strategie narrative dans l'Histoire de Nicetas Choniates, p.243 / Stanislas Kuttner-Homs -- 14. Andronikos I Komnenos in Choniates' History: a trickster narrative?, p.263 / Tomasz Labuk -- 15. The autobiographical subject in Tzetses' Chiliades: an analysis of its components, p.287 / Aglae Pizzone -- 16. Afterword, p.305 / Margaret Mullett.

Call Number

JFE 19-10322

ISBN

• 9151303620
• 9789151303628

OCLC

1060576734

Title

Storytelling in Byzantium : narratological approaches to Byzantine texts and images / edited by Charis Messis, Margaret Mullett & Ingela Nilsson.

Publisher

[Uppsala, Sweden] : Uppsala University, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia ; 19

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia ; 19.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Contributions chiefly in English; four in French.

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cover image

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Messēs, Charēs, editor.

Mullett, Margaret, editor.

Nilsson, Ingela, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-10322