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This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates new knowledge in the fields of classics, medieval studies, and literary studies. Its chapters discuss the theory and poetics of tales, the art of storytelling, inherent features of the tale, and the arrangement, types, and characteristics of tales in collections. The chapter authors base their approaches on a rich variety of texts and writers that are here discussed for the…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates new knowledge in the fields of classics, medieval studies, and literary studies. Its chapters discuss the theory and poetics of tales, the art of storytelling, inherent features of the tale, and the arrangement, types, and characteristics of tales in collections. The chapter authors base their approaches on a rich variety of texts and writers that are here discussed for the first time in one volume. Contributors are: Andria Andreou, Stavroula Constantinou, Julia Doroszewska, Christian Høgel, Markéta Kulhánková, Ingela Nilsson, Nicolò Sassi, and Sophia Xenophontos.
Autorenporträt
Stavroula Constantinou, Ph.D. (2003), is the director of the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus and the editor-in-chief of Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals. She has written on hagiography, narrative, gender, emotions, motherhood, and the body. Andria Andreou, Ph.D. (2017), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus. Her research interests lie mainly with narratives, the portrayal of gender, the art of storytelling, narrative voice, the orchestration of characters, and other theoretical approaches to Byzantine literature and modern theatre.