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Michael Psellos - Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium (Paperback)
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Michael Psellos - Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium (Paperback)
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This book explores Michael Psellos' place in the history of Greek
rhetoric and self-representation and his impact on the development
of Byzantine literature. Avoiding the modern dilemma that
vacillates between Psellos the pompous rhetorician and Psellos the
ingenious thinker, Professor Papaioannou unravels the often
misunderstood Byzantine rhetoric, its rich discursive tradition and
the social fabric of elite Constantinopolitan culture which
rhetoric addressed. The book offers close readings of Psellos'
personal letters, speeches, lectures and historiographical
narratives, and analysis of other early Byzantine and classical
models of authorship in Byzantine book culture, such as Gregory of
Nazianzos, Synesios of Cyrene, Hermogenes and Plato. It also
details Psellos' innovative attention to authorial creativity,
performative mimesis and the aesthetics of the self.
Simultaneously, it traces within Byzantium complex expressions of
emotion and gender, notions of authorship and subjectivity, and
theories of fictionality and literature, challenging the common
fallacy that these are modern inventions.
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