Storyworlds in Short Narratives

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70733-7
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Constantinou, Stavroula

Andreou, Andria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.