Storyworlds in Short Narratives

Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales

Stavroula Constantinou, Andria Andreou (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70733-7 (ISBN)

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This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a new systematic approach to the early Greek tale, a dynamic and complex genre inviting a rich array of critical responses. The chapter authors base their fresh approaches on a rich variety of texts and authors.

This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates new knowledge in the fields of classics, medieval studies, and literary studies. Its chapters discuss the theory and poetics of tales, the art of storytelling, inherent features of the tale, and the arrangement, types, and characteristics of tales in collections. The chapter authors base their approaches on a rich variety of texts and writers that are here discussed for the first time in one volume.

Contributors are: Andria Andreou, Stavroula Constantinou, Julia Doroszewska, Christian Høgel, Markéta Kulhánková, Ingela Nilsson, Nicolò Sassi, and Sophia Xenophontos.

Stavroula Constantinou, Ph.D. (2003), is the director of the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus and the editor-in-chief of Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals. She has written on hagiography, narrative, gender, emotions, motherhood, and the body. Andria Andreou, Ph.D. (2017), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus. Her research interests lie mainly with narratives, the portrayal of gender, the art of storytelling, narrative voice, the orchestration of characters, and other theoretical approaches to Byzantine literature and modern theatre.

Preface

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Introduction

Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou

Part 1: Tale Theory and Poetics

1 The Art of Short Narrative: Toward a Theory of the Late Antique and Byzantine Tale

Stavroula Constantinou

2 Telling a Thauma in Hagiography and Paradoxography

Christian Høgel

3 To Render Unbelievable Tales Believable: the Storyworlds of Paradoxography

Ingela Nilsson

Part 2: The Art of Storytelling

4 Didactic Tales in Galen

Sophia Xenophontos

5 Repetition and the Storyteller’s Profile in Early Byzantine Tale Collections

Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou

6 Circulation of Hagiographical Tales along the Incense Route: Storytelling as Technology of Enchantment

Nicolò Sassi

Part 3: Tales in Collections

7 Stunning with a List, Dazzling with a Catalogue: the Form of Paradoxographical and Christian Miracle Collections Revisited

Julia Doroszewska

8 (Auto)biographical, Marvelous, and Supernatural Stories in Early Byzantine Hagiographical Anthologies

Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou

9 Space in Edifying Stories: the Case of Anastasios Sinaites

Markéta Kulhánková

General Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages ; 31
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-70733-6 / 9004707336
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70733-7 / 9789004707337
Zustand	Neuware