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Satire in the Middle Byzantine period : the golden age of laughter? /
This volume places the satirical works of the Middle Byzantine period in a wider political and socio-cultural context, exploring not only their various forms but also their functions and meanings. The volume is divided into four parts. The first part provides the backgrounds of the authors and texts...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Explorations in medieval culture ;
v. 12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures
- List of Contributors
- Note on Transliteration
- Chapter 1 It is Difficult Not to Write Satire: A Brief Introduction to the Satirical Mode
- Part 1 Traditions, Approaches, and Definitions
- Chapter 2 The Fortune of Lucian in Byzantium
- Chapter 3 Laughter, Derision, and Abuse in Byzantine Verse
- Chapter 4 Parody in Byzantine Literature
- Part 2 Forms and Functions
- Chapter 5 Satirical Elements in Hagiographical Narratives
- Chapter 6 Political Satire
- Chapter 7 Parody in Byzantine Art
- Chapter 8 The Cicada and the Dung Beetle
- Part 3 Satire as a Philological Endeavor
- Chapter 9 The Power of Old and New Logoi: The Philopatris Revisited
- Chapter 10 A Satire Like No Other: Pseudo-Lucian's Charidemos and Its Traditions
- Chapter 11 The Consolation of Philology: Anacharsis or Ananias
- Part 4 Komnenian Satire: A Golden Age?
- Chapter 12 Playwright, Satirist, Atticist: The Reception of Aristophanes in 12th-Century Byzantium
- Chapter 13 Satirical Modulations in 12th-Century Greek Literature
- Chapter 14 Satire in the Komnenian Period: Poetry, Satirical Strands, and Intellectual Antagonism
- Chapter 15 "For Old Men Too Can Play, Albeit More Wisely So": The Game of Discourses in the Ptochoprodromika
- Chapter 16 Afterword
- Appendix Nikephoros Basilakes on His Own Satirical Writings
- Bibliography
- Index