This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception of the genre of the novel in twelfth-century Byzantine society. By examining the indigenous rhetorical concept of amphoteroglossia, this book probes unexplored aspects of the re-inscription of inherited allegorical, comic, and rhetorical modes in the Komnenian novels, and offers new methodological...
This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates t...
This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C.P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important 20th-century European poets.
This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C.P. Cavafy (Konsta...