A repentant sinner
Representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11932560 |
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| Authors | Cristina Cocola (0000-0002-8886-2558, KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 176-195 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/byz.2022.9 |
| OpenAlex | W4287921562 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
For Byzantines, catanyctic poetry offered a rich source of models for self-representation. In this paper I analyse the poetic strategies and literary motifs through which Nikephoros Ouranos (tenth–eleventh century) shaped the self in his catanyctic alphabet. In particular, I will focus on the intertextual strategies employed by Ouranos in order to model the catanyctic self, such as the identification with scriptural sinners, and the presence of biblical metaphors
Alphabet · Art · Eleventh · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Literature · Order (exchange · Physics · Poetry · Representation (politics · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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