Stratis Papaioannou

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine "literature", highlighting key problems, and presenting basic research tools for an audience of specialists and non-specialists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 177mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1344g
• ISBN-13: 9780199351763
• ISBN-10: 0199351767
• Artikelnr.: 60781348

Autorenporträt

Stratis Papaioannou is Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Crete. His previous publications include Michael Psellos: Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium and, as editor and translator, Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Contributors
* Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations
* List of Figures
* 1) What is Byzantine Literature? An Introduction
* Stratis Papaioannou
* I. Materials, Norms, Codes
* 2) Language
* Martin Hinterberger
* 3) Book Culture
* Filippo Ronconi and Stratis Papaioannou
* 4) Theory of Literature
* Stratis Papaioannou
* 5) Biblical Hermeneutics
* Fr. Maximos Constas
* 6) Memory: Selection, Citation, Commonplace
* Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
* 7) The Reception of Classical Literature and Ancient Myth
* Anthony Kaldellis
* 8) Translations I: From Other Languages into Greek
* I. Latin
* Réka Forrai
* II. Syriac
* Pablo Ubierna
* III. Arabic
* Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
* IV. Georgian
* Nikoloz Aleksidze
* V. Neo-Latin Languages
* Carolina Cupane
* II. Forms
* 9) Orality and Textuality (With an Appendix on the Byzantine
Conceptions)
* Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou
* 10) Narrative: Theory and Practice
* Ingela Nilsson
* 11) Rhetorical Practice
* Alexander Riehle
* 12) Rhetorical Figures
* Vessela Valiavitcharska
* 13) A Rhetorical Genre(?): The Invective (9th - 15th c.)
* Ioannis Polemis
* 14) Rewriting
* Stephanos Efthymiadis
* 15) Poetry?
* Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen
* 16) Inscriptions
* Ivan Drpi?
* 17) Metrics and Prose Rhythm
* Wolfram Hörandner and Andreas Rhoby
* 18) Sacred Song
* Stratis Papaioannou
* 19) Recitation and Chant: Types of Notation, Modes of Expression
* Sandra Martani
* III. Agents
* 20) Authors (With an Excursus on Symeon Metaphrastes)
* Stratis Papaioannou
* 21) Readers and their Pleasures
* Stratis Papaioannou
* IV. Translation, Transmission, Edition
* 22) Translations II: Greek Texts into Other Languages (4th - 15th c.)
* I. Latin
* Réka Forrai
* II. Coptic
* Arietta Papaconstantinou
* III. Syriac
* Pablo Ubierna
* IV. Armenian
* Theo Maarten van Lint
* V. Georgian
* Nikoloz Aleksidze
* VI. Arabic
* Alexander Treiger
* VII. Slavic
* Sergey Ivanov and Anatolii Turilov
* 23) Modes of Manuscript Transmission (9th - 15th c.)
* Inmaculada Pérez Martín
* 24) Textual Criticism
* Caroline Macé
* Postscript
* 25) Thoughts on the Recent Past and the Future of Byzantine Literary
Studies
* Margaret Mullett
* Glossary of Rhetorical Figures [Vessela Valiavitcharska]
* Index of Personal Names and Titles of Anonymous Texts