The author in Middle Byzantine literature : modes, functions, and identities / edited by Aglae Pizzone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pizzone, Aglae M. V., 1976- editor.

Series:

Byzantinisches Archiv ; Bd. 28.

Byzantinisches Archiv ; volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine literature--History and criticism.

Byzantine literature.

Authorship.

Authors, Byzantine.

Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.

Byzantine Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Note on citation and transliteration

Notes on contributors

List of abbreviations

Introduction

The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: A View from Within / Pizzone, Aglae

First Part: Modes

Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author / Papaioannou, Stratis

The Ethics of Authorship: Some Tensions in the 11th Century / Bernard, Floris

Questions of Authorship and Genre in Chronicles of the Middle Byzantine Period: The Case of Michael Psellos' Historia Syntomos / Tocci, Raimondo

His, and Not His: The Poems of the Late Gregory the Monk / Lauxtermann, Marc D.

Authorship and Authority in the Book of the Philosopher Syntipas / Toth, Ida

Second Part: Functions

Authorial Voice and Self-Presentation in a 9th-Century Hymn on the Prodigal Son / Krueger, Derek

Aristocracy and Literary Production in the 10th Century / Andriollo, Luisa

The Anonymous Poets of the Anthologia Marciana: Questions of Collection and Authorship / Spingou, Foteini

"Perhaps the Scholiast Was also a Drudge." Authorial Practices in Three Middle Byzantine Sub-Literary Writings / Kenens, Ulrike

In Search of the Monastic Author. Story-Telling, Anonymity and Innovation in the 12th Century / Mullett, Margaret

Third Part: Identities

Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Chōniatēs' Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον / Bourbouhakis, Emmanuel C.

Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikēphoros Basilakēs / Pizzone, Aglae

Authorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women's Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period / Riehle, Alexander

The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnēnē / Neville, Leonora

Afterword

A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship / Johnson, Ian

Bibliography

General Index

Index of authors and texts

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614515197

1614515190

9781614519614

1614519617

OCLC:

1013954514