The Poverty of Écriture and the Craft of Writing
Towards a Reappraisal of the Prodromic Poems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11932997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Alexiou (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Pages | 1-40 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1179/030701386790203515 |
| OpenAlex | W2052631226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 8 |
It is the purpose of this paper to challenge some traditional assumptions about authorship and style in twelfth-century Byzantium, and to present a new, if tentative, interpretation of the fourth Prodromic Poem, which may have important implications for an understanding of literary perceptions of every-day life in twelfth-century Constantinople, as well as for the ways in which texts can be read
Archaeology · Art · Craft · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Poverty · Style (visual arts · Writing style · Byzantine Studies and History · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond
Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
Memoirs as Manifesto
The Rhetoric of Poverty
Entertainment in the twelfth-century canonical commentaries
Theodore Prodromos and the use of the poetic work of Gregory of Nazianzus
Constantinople and the Echo Chamber
Marriage, comedy, and the patristic tradition in the first Ptochoprodromic poem
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2024 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |