By Stratis Papaioannou

ISBN-10: 1107026229

ISBN-13: 9781107026223

ISBN-10: 1316629414

ISBN-13: 9781316629413

This ebook explores Michael Psellos' position within the background of Greek rhetoric and self-representation and his effect at the improvement of Byzantine literature. fending off the trendy problem that vacillates among Psellos the pompous rhetorician and Psellos the creative philosopher, Professor Papaioannou unravels the customarily misunderstood Byzantine rhetoric, its wealthy discursive culture and the social textile of elite Constantinopolitan tradition which rhetoric addressed. The e-book bargains shut readings of Psellos' own letters, speeches, lectures and historiographical narratives, and research of alternative early Byzantine and classical types of authorship in Byzantine ebook tradition, resembling Gregory of Nazianzos, Synesios of Cyrene, Hermogenes and Plato. It additionally information Psellos' leading edge recognition to authorial creativity, performative mimesis and the aesthetics of the self. concurrently, it lines inside of Byzantium complicated expressions of emotion and gender, notions of authorship and subjectivity, and theories of fictionality and literature, difficult the typical fallacy that those are smooth inventions.

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