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Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium (Paperback)
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Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine
literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but
also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a
revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no
longer is it considered a decadent form of classical literature or
a turgid precursor of modern Greek literature. There are still
prejudices to overcome: that there was no literary public, or that
Byzantium had no drama or humour, but Byzantine texts are now read
as literature in the social context of literacy and book culture.
One genre is treated here more fully: the letter (Derrida said that
letters represent all literature). In these studies epistolography
is examined from the point of view of genre, of originality, of
communication and as evidence for political history. Other genres
touched on include the novel, historiography, parainesis,
panegyric, and hagiography. The section on literary process
includes essays on genre, patronage and rhetoric, and the section
on literacy practices deals with both writing and reading. The
collection includes one unpublished lecture which acts as
introduction, and additional notes and comments.
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