The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature : Modes, Functions, and Identities /
The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature : Modes, Functions, and Identities /
edited by Aglae Pizzone.
- 2014.
- 1 online resource
- Byzantinisches Archiv ; v. 28 .
- Byzantinisches Archiv. .
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. Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikephoros BasilakesAuthorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women's Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period; The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnene; Afterword; A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship; Bibliography; General Index; Index of authors and texts.
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.
9781614515197 1614515190
10.1515/9781614515197 doi
Byzantine literature--History and criticism.
Authorship.
Authors, Byzantine.
Authorship
Authors, Byzantine.
Authorship.
Byzantine literature--History and criticism.
Littérature byzantine--Histoire et critique.
Art d'écrire.
Écrivains byzantins.
authorship.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Ancient & Classical.
Authors, Byzantine.
Authorship.
Byzantine literature.
Intellectual life.
Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.
Byzantine Empire.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PA5130.M96 .A384 2014
880.9002
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. Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikephoros BasilakesAuthorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women's Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period; The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnene; Afterword; A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship; Bibliography; General Index; Index of authors and texts.
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.
9781614515197 1614515190
10.1515/9781614515197 doi
Byzantine literature--History and criticism.
Authorship.
Authors, Byzantine.
Authorship
Authors, Byzantine.
Authorship.
Byzantine literature--History and criticism.
Littérature byzantine--Histoire et critique.
Art d'écrire.
Écrivains byzantins.
authorship.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Ancient & Classical.
Authors, Byzantine.
Authorship.
Byzantine literature.
Intellectual life.
Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.
Byzantine Empire.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PA5130.M96 .A384 2014
880.9002