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The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature : Modes, Functions, and Identities / ed. by Aglae Pizzone.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Byzantinisches Archiv : Als Ergänzung zur Byzantinischen Zeitschrift ; 28Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (575 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614517115
  • 9781614519614
  • 9781614515197
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 880.9/002 23
LOC classification:
  • PA5115 .A97 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on citation and transliteration -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: A View from Within -- First Part: Modes -- Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author -- The Ethics of Authorship: Some Tensions in the 11th Century -- Questions of Authorship and Genre in Chronicles of the Middle Byzantine Period: The Case of Michael Psellos’ Historia Syntomos -- His, and Not His: The Poems of the Late Gregory the Monk -- Authorship and Authority in the Book of the Philosopher Syntipas -- Second Part: Functions -- Authorial Voice and Self-Presentation in a 9th-Century Hymn on the Prodigal Son -- Aristocracy and Literary Production in the 10th Century -- The Anonymous Poets of the Anthologia Marciana: Questions of Collection and Authorship -- “Perhaps the Scholiast Was also a Drudge.” Authorial Practices in Three Middle Byzantine Sub-Literary Writings -- In Search of the Monastic Author. Story-Telling, Anonymity and Innovation in the 12th Century -- Third Part: Identities -- Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Chōniatēs’ Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον -- Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikēphoros Basilakēs -- Authorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women’s Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period -- The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnēnē -- Afterword -- A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of authors and texts
Summary: Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between self-presentation and cultural production in a wide array of genres, providing new insights into how Byzantine intellectuals conceived of their own work and pursuits.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on citation and transliteration -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: A View from Within -- First Part: Modes -- Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author -- The Ethics of Authorship: Some Tensions in the 11th Century -- Questions of Authorship and Genre in Chronicles of the Middle Byzantine Period: The Case of Michael Psellos’ Historia Syntomos -- His, and Not His: The Poems of the Late Gregory the Monk -- Authorship and Authority in the Book of the Philosopher Syntipas -- Second Part: Functions -- Authorial Voice and Self-Presentation in a 9th-Century Hymn on the Prodigal Son -- Aristocracy and Literary Production in the 10th Century -- The Anonymous Poets of the Anthologia Marciana: Questions of Collection and Authorship -- “Perhaps the Scholiast Was also a Drudge.” Authorial Practices in Three Middle Byzantine Sub-Literary Writings -- In Search of the Monastic Author. Story-Telling, Anonymity and Innovation in the 12th Century -- Third Part: Identities -- Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Chōniatēs’ Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον -- Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikēphoros Basilakēs -- Authorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women’s Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period -- The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnēnē -- Afterword -- A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of authors and texts

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Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between self-presentation and cultural production in a wide array of genres, providing new insights into how Byzantine intellectuals conceived of their own work and pursuits.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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