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Fictional storytelling in the medieval eastern Mediterranean and beyond /
This volume offers an overview of the rich narrative material circulating in the medieval Mediterranean. As a multilingual and multicultural zone, the Eastern Mediterranean offered a broad market for tales in both oral and written form and longer works of fiction, which were translated and reworked...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Medieval Fictional Story-Telling in the Eastern Mediterranean (8th-15th centuries AD): Historical and Cultural Context; part 1; Of Love and Other Adventures ; Chapter 1; Mapping the Roots: The Novel in Antiquity ; Massimo Fusillo; Chapter 2; Romantic Love in Rhetorical Guise: The Byzantine Revival of the Twelfth Century; Ingela Nilsson; Chapter 3; In the Mood of Love: Love Romances in Medieval Persian Poetry and their Sources; Julia Rubanovich; Chapter 4; In the Realm of Eros: The Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance.
- Carolina CupaneChapter 5; The Adaptations of Western Sources by Byzantine Vernacular Romances; Kostas Yiavis; part 2; Ancient and New Heroes ; Chapter 6; A Hero Without Borders: 1 Alexander the Great in Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek Tradition; Ulrich Moennig; Chapter 7; A Hero Without Borders: 2 Alexander the Great in the Syriac and Arabic Tradition; Faustina C.W. Doufikar-Aerts; Chapter 8; A Hero Without Borders: 3 Alexander the Great in the Medieval Persian Tradition; Julia Rubanovich; Chapter 9; Tales of the Trojan War: Achilles and Paris in Medieval Greek Literature.
- Renata LavagniniChapter 10; Shared Spaces: 1 Digenis Akritis, the Two-Blood Border Lord; Corinne Jouanno; Chapter 11; Shared Spaces: 2 Cross-border Warriors in the Arabian Folk Epic; Claudia Ott ; part 3; Wise Men and Clever Beasts ; Chapter 12; The Literary Life of a Fictional Life: Aesop in Antiquity and Byzantium; Grammatiki A. Karla; Chapter 13; Secundus the Silent Philosopher in the Ancient and Eastern Tradition; Oliver Overwien; Chapter 14; Fighting with Tales: 1 The Arabic Book of Sindbad the Philosopher; Bettina Krönung.
- Chapter 15; Fighting with Tales: 2 The Byzantine Book of Syntipas the Philosopher*Ida Toth; Chapter 16; From the Desert to the Holy Mountain: The Beneficial Story of Barlaam and Ioasaph; Robert Volk; Chapter 17; The Wisdom of the Beasts: The Arabic Book of Kalīla and Dimna and the Byzantine Book of Stephanites and Ichnelates; Bettina Krönung; part 4; Between Literacy and Orality: Audience and Reception of Fictional Literature ; Chapter 18; "I grasp, oh, artist, your enigma, I grasp your drama": Reconstructing the Implied Audience of the Twelfth-Century Byzantine Novel*; Panagiotis Roilos.
- Chapter 19; "Let me tell you a wonderful tale": Audience and Reception of the Vernacular RomancesCarolina Cupane; General Bibliography; General Index.