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Storyworlds in Short Narratives
Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales
Series: - Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, Volume: 31
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.
Contributors are: Andria Andreou, Stavroula Constantinou, Julia Doroszewska, Christian Høgel, Markéta Kulhánková, Ingela Nilsson, Nicolò Sassi, and Sophia Xenophontos.
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.
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.
Preface
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
1 The Art of Short Narrative: Toward a Theory of the Late Antique and Byzantine Tale
Stavroula Constantinou
2 Telling a Thauma in Hagiography and Paradoxography
Christian Høgel
3 To Render Unbelievable Tales Believable: the Storyworlds of Paradoxography
Ingela Nilsson
4 Didactic Tales in Galen
Sophia Xenophontos
5 Repetition and the Storyteller’s Profile in Early Byzantine Tale Collections
Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
6 Circulation of Hagiographical Tales along the Incense Route: Storytelling as Technology of Enchantment
Nicolò Sassi
7 Stunning with a List, Dazzling with a Catalogue: the Form of Paradoxographical and Christian Miracle Collections Revisited
Julia Doroszewska
8 (Auto)biographical, Marvelous, and Supernatural Stories in Early Byzantine Hagiographical Anthologies
Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
9 Space in Edifying Stories: the Case of Anastasios Sinaites
Markéta Kulhánková
General Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
Part 1: Tale Theory and Poetics
1 The Art of Short Narrative: Toward a Theory of the Late Antique and Byzantine Tale
Stavroula Constantinou
2 Telling a Thauma in Hagiography and Paradoxography
Christian Høgel
3 To Render Unbelievable Tales Believable: the Storyworlds of Paradoxography
Ingela Nilsson
Part 2: The Art of Storytelling
4 Didactic Tales in Galen
Sophia Xenophontos
5 Repetition and the Storyteller’s Profile in Early Byzantine Tale Collections
Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
6 Circulation of Hagiographical Tales along the Incense Route: Storytelling as Technology of Enchantment
Nicolò Sassi
Part 3: Tales in Collections
7 Stunning with a List, Dazzling with a Catalogue: the Form of Paradoxographical and Christian Miracle Collections Revisited
Julia Doroszewska
8 (Auto)biographical, Marvelous, and Supernatural Stories in Early Byzantine Hagiographical Anthologies
Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
9 Space in Edifying Stories: the Case of Anastasios Sinaites
Markéta Kulhánková
General Index
This volume will be of interest to researchers and (post-graduate) students in the fields of classics, medieval studies, literary studies, philosophy, cultural studies, folklore studies, and cognitive Studies.