Reading the Late Byzantine Romance
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Reading the Late Byzantine Romance

A Handbook

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Reading the Late Byzantine Romance

A Handbook

About this book

The corpus of Palaiologan romances consists of about a dozen works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narrate the trials and tribulations of aristocratic young lovers. This volume brings together leading scholars of Byzantine literature to examine the corpus afresh and aims to be the definitive work on the subject, suitable for scholars and students of all levels. It offers interdisciplinary and transnational approaches which demonstrate the aesthetic and cultural value of these works in their own right and their centrality to the medieval and early modern Greek, European and Mediterranean literary traditions. From a historical perspective, the volume also emphasizes how the romances represent a turning point in the history of Greek letters: they are a repository of both ancient and medieval oral poetic and novelistic traditions and yet are often considered the earliest works of Modern Greek literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Note on the Late Byzantine Romances and Their Editions
  9. Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Palaiologan Romance: Narrating the Vernacular
  10. Chapter 2 The Categories of 'Originals' and 'Adaptations' in Late Byzantine Romance: A Reassessment
  11. Chapter 3 Intercultural Encounters in the Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance
  12. Chapter 4 Dreams and Female Initiation in Livistros and Rhodamne and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
  13. Chapter 5 The Acculturation of the French Romance Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne in the Byzantine Imperios and Margarona
  14. Chapter 6 Chronotopes between East and West in Apollonios of Tyre
  15. Chapter 7 Linguistic Contacts in the Late Byzantine Romances: Where Cultural Influence Meets Language Interference
  16. Chapter 8 From Herakles to Erkoulios, or the Place of the War of Troy in the Late Byzantine Romance Movement
  17. Chapter 9 Troy in Byzantine Romances: Homeric Reception in Digenis Akritis, the Tale of Achilles and the Tale of Troy
  18. Chapter 10 Herodotean Material in a Late Version of the Alexander Romance
  19. Chapter 11 The Palaiologan Hagiographies: Saints Without Romance
  20. Chapter 12 Homosocial Desire in the War of Troy: Between (Wo)men
  21. Chapter 13 Literary Landscapes in the Palaiologan Romances: An Ecocritical Approach
  22. Chapter 14 The Affective Community of Romance: Love, Privilege and the Erotics of Death in the Mediterranean
  23. Chapter 15 The Bookseller's Parrot: A Fictional Afterword
  24. Index