Dancing With Deconstructionists in the Gardens of the Muses: New Literary History vs?

Mullett, Margaret

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“…But it is also true that changes that occurred from the late 1970s were faster and more far-reaching than those beforehand, and that a real broadening of the intellectual agenda took place which contrasted very strikingly with the slower rate of change of the period from before the Second World War until the 1970s. Two fields in particular benefited from closer engagement with ongoing theoretical debates, namely art history (discussed above) and literary studies (Brubaker 1992;Mullett 1990). Attitudes towards Byzantine literature have traditionally been deeply conservative and largely modelled on older approaches towards classical texts: the prime focus has been on the production of critical editions, with manuscript and linguistic studies as a secondary goal.…”

Section: Byzantine Studies As An Academic Disciplinementioning

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Byzantine Studies as an Academic Discipline

Jeffreys

Haldon

Cormack

2008

Oxford Handbooks Online

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Byzantine Studies are concerned with the history and culture of what has come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, that is, the empire of East Rome. The term 'Byzantine' derives from Byzantium, the name of the city founded in the eighth century BCE that had previously occupied the site of Constantine's Constantinople, and is a modern construct first used in seventeenth-century Europe. 'Byzantium' and 'Byzantine' are now used freely to refer to all aspects of the East Roman Empire and its culture. Today, Byzantine Studies is an academic discipline represented in many universities throughout the Western world, whether in autonomous departments or by the special research interests of individual scholars. Byzantine Studies, in the sense of the study of Byzantine history, language, and literature, has a long pedigree. This book provides a picture of the state of Byzantine Studies today, with bibliographies and references to guide the neophyte reader.

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Section: Byzantine Studies As An Academic Disciplinementioning

confidence: 99%

Byzantine Studies as an Academic Discipline

Jeffreys

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Cormack

2008

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Redeeming Byzantine Epistolography

Hatlie¹

1996

Byz. mod. Greek stud.

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The Russian scholar V.A. Smetanin, whose work during the 1970s and 1980s dealt exclusively with Byzantine epistolography, would clearly like to think of himself as an 'epistolologist', occupied in the specialised field of Byzantine 'epistolology'. Epistolology is an auxiliary discipline within history, according to Smetanin, which encompasses both theoretical and practical concerns. Its theoretical interests are to work out methods for, (a 1) drawing boundaries between letters and other historical documents, (b 1) dating letters on the basis of their epistolological markings (epistolologicheskich priznakov), and (c 1) understanding the introduction and assimilation of correspondence into learned discourse. On its practical side, epistolology aims to solve problems of, (a 2) the immediate components (nepocredstvennoe vychlenenie) of correspondence, (b 2) its architectonics, and finally (c 2), the introduction and assimilation of the epistolographic legacy into learned discourse. Smetanin opens a middle road within epistolology, too, in effect a series of 'steps' (stupenich) which converge on both theory and practice. Thus the so-called (moxcbpiaiq (a 3) takes in the question of the distinguishing features of epistolography, npoeXsvoiq (b 3) works out its manner or conduct and etpapfioaig (c 3) studies its function or use. 1 When all is said and done, Smetanin suggests, epistolology will *My thanks to Dumbarton Oaks for awarding me a Summer Fellowship to complete research for this article, and to Margaret Mullett for reading it in an earlier draft. Needless to say, all mistakes are my own.

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An Instructive Story About How a Byzantine Princess Bravely Looked Deep into the Abyss of Oblivion

Burliga

Mauks

2020

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An Instructive Story About How a Byzantine Princess Bravely Looked Deep into the Abyss of Oblivion Anna Comnena’s beginning of the Prologue to her Alexiad is a fine literary and rhetorical piece. It is about the problem how destructive the passing of time is, and for which the only obstacle can be to consolidate the achievements of the past in a literary work. Such a line of thought was usually interpreted in the terms of the author’s rhetorical topos. Most frequently, this topos occurs in ancient historiography whose formal features were continued by Greek historians of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium). While not deyning that there is much to recommend in such an approach, the present paper tries also to pay attention to Anna’s life and stress the authenticity of her emotions. In this light the Preface to the Alexiad, while remaining an example of magnificent rhetorical argumentation, can also be seen as an authentic attempt ‘to stop’ time, an attempt made by an aging woman, conscious that this is the only chance to give meaning to her own life by preserving it in the memory of future generations, so, in a sense, to ‘immortalize’ it, given that it will be told in a written story, capable of surviving in time.

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Dancing With Deconstructionists in the Gardens of the Muses: New Literary History vs?

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

Byzantine Studies as an Academic Discipline

Byzantine Studies as an Academic Discipline

Redeeming Byzantine Epistolography

An Instructive Story About How a Byzantine Princess Bravely Looked Deep into the Abyss of Oblivion

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