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List of illustrations | ||
Preface to the first edition | ||
Preface to the second edition | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | 1071-1204 | |
1 | The Twelfth-Century Background | 9 |
The Byzantine empire in the twelfth century | 9 | |
Levels of language and levels of literature | 13 | |
Literacy, books and readers | 15 | |
East meets West? | 18 | |
2 | The Literary Tradition | 22 |
Mimesis and rhetoric | 22 | |
Realism and the individual | 28 | |
3 | The 'Proto-Romance', Digenes Akrites | 30 |
Precursors of the romance | 30 | |
'Digenes': story and versions | 32 | |
The original 'Digenes' | 43 | |
4 | The Renaissance of a Genre | 52 |
5 | The Twelfth-Century Texts | 70 |
Pt. II | 1204-1453 | |
6 | The First 'Modern Greek' Literature | 91 |
The rise of vernacular literature | 92 | |
Significance and development of the 'political' verseform | 98 | |
7 | The Original Romances: The Texts and their Stories | 101 |
The texts: authorship, date, manuscript tradition | 102 | |
The stories | 109 | |
8 | The Original Romances: Narrative Structure | 117 |
9 | Translations and Adaptations of Western Romances | 135 |
10 | Genealogy | 146 |
The twelfth-century and Hellenistic romances | 147 | |
East meets West | 154 | |
11 | Orality | 164 |
The theories | 164 | |
Critique of the theories | 169 | |
A new proposal | 181 | |
12 | Reception | 189 |
Afterword: The Medieval Greek Romance Since 1987 | 207 | |
Notes | 228 | |
References | 270 | |
Index | 294 |
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