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Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Paperback)
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Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Paperback)
Series: Past and Present Publications
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Byzantine literature is often regarded as little more than an
agglomeration of stereotyped forms and generic conventions which
allows no scope for individual thought or expression. Accordingly,
histories of Byzantine literature tend to focus on the history of
genres. The essays in this book challenge the traditional view.
They attempt to show the coherence and individuality not of the
genre but of author. By careful analysis of all the works of a
given author, regardless of genre, these studies aim to reach
behind the facade of convention, to discover not only biographical
facts but also the writer's own likes and dislikes, his social
views, his political sympathies and antipathies, his ethical and
aesthetic standards. Most of the authors under consideration lived
in the twelfth century. Several of them experienced or wrote about
the same set of events; often they were acquainted with one
another, or else had mutual friends. Thus each essay is both
complete in itself and complementary to the others in the book; the
individuality of each writer is most fully revealed in the
comparison with his contemporaries and conversely the separate
portraits may be combined to form a broader picture of Byzantine
literary society of the time.
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