With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely
considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral
fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major
intellectual innovator on the interconnections among ancient,
medieval, and modern Greek cultures. In After Antiquity, Alexiou
looks at how language defines the contours of myth and metaphor.
Drawing on texts from the New Testament to the present day, Alexiou
shows the diversity of the Greek language and its impact at crucial
stages of its history on people who were not Greek. She then
stipulates the relatedness of literary and "folk" genres, and
assesses the importance of rituals and metaphors of the life cycle
in shaping narrative forms and systems of imagery.
Alexiou places special emphasis on Byzantine literary texts of
the sixth and twelfth centuries, providing her own translations
where necessary; modern poetry and prose of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries; and narrative songs and tales in the folk
tradition, which she analyzes alongside songs of the life cycle.
She devotes particular attention to two genres whose significance
she thinks has been much underrated: the tales (paramythia) and the
songs of love and marriage.
In exploring the relationship between speech and ritual, Alexiou
not only takes the Greek language into account but also invokes the
neurological disorder of autism, drawing on clinical studies and
her own experience as the mother of autistic identical twin
sons.
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