Storytelling in Byzantium
Subtitle: narratological approaches to Byzantine texts and images
By: edited by Charis Messis, Margaret Mullett & Ingela Nilsson
Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia -- 19; Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis -- 19.
Publisher: Uppsala University
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Uppsala, Sweden]
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9789151303628
Subjects: Byzantine literature; History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); History; Storytelling
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions chiefly in English; four in French.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Byzantine storytelling and modern narratology: an introduction, p.1 -- -- SPACE AND STORYWORLDS -- 2.; title: 'Telling spaces' in Byzantium: ekphraseis, place-making and 'thick description', p.15  -- Myrto Veikou -- 3.; title: Un chevalier voit les voiles de soie: la voix narrative et l'espace byzantin dans Partonopeu de Blois, p.33 -- Ellen Söderblom Saarela -- 4.; title: Letters and space: function and models of epistolary nodes in Serbian hagiography, p.53  -- Milan Vukasinovic -- 5.; title: Ideological storyworld in Byzantium and Armenia: histography and model selves in narratives of insurrection, p.71  -- Annalinden Weller -- LITURGIAL AND HAGIOGRAPHICAL STORYTELLING -- 6.; title: Dramatic narratives and recognition in the kontakia of Romanos the Melodist, p.91  -- Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen -- 7.; title: A 'euchologic' narrative in Byzantium? Towards a narratological approach to Kassia's female liturgical poety, p.111  -- Laura Borghetti -- 8.; title: Saints in disguise: Performance in the Life of John Kalyvites (BHG 868), the Life of Theodora of Alexandria (BHG 1727) and the Life of Symeon Salos (BHG 1677), p.137  -- Julie Van Pelt -- 9.; title: Changing the rhythm to change the society: narrative time in the Life of John Vatatzes (BHG 933), p.159  -- Lorenzo M. Ciolfi -- 10.; title: Structure et tension narrative dans les cycles parietaux de la Passion du Christ a l'epoque tardobyzantine: le role des apotres, p.17 -- Judith Soria -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL, POLITICAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES -- 11.; title: Une lecture subversive de la Vie de Basile est-elle possible? Strategies narratives et objectifs politiques a la cour de Constantin VII Porphyrogenete, p.201  -- Charis Messis -- 12.; title: Constructing memory: the Chronicle of Theophanes on the reign of Heraclius, p.223  -- Anastasia Sirotenko -- 13.; title: Le roman de Thebes: l'autocitation comme strategie narrative dans l'Histoire de Nicetas Choniates, p.243  -- Stanislas Kuttner-Homs -- 14.; title: Andronikos I Komnenos in Choniates' History: a trickster narrative?, p.263  -- Tomasz Labuk -- 15.; title: The autobiographical subject in Tzetses' Chiliades: an analysis of its components, p.287  -- Aglae Pizzone -- 16.; title: Afterword, p.305 -- Margaret Mullett.