Storyworlds in Short Narratives : Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales / edited by Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages ; 31. | Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Description: 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9789004707351
- Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales
- 910.82 23
- D410
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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