Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After

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Titel: Greek Laughter and Tears : Antiquity and After

Enthält: Frontmatter
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
2 Laughter and Tears in Early Greek Literature
3 Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian
4 Parody, Symbol and the Literary Past in Lucian
PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
5 ‘Tantalus Ever in Tears’: The Greek Anthology as a Source of Emotions in Late Antiquity
6 ‘Do You Think You’re Clever? Solve This Riddle, Then!’ The Comic Side of Byzantine Enigmatic Poetry
7 Philogelos: An Anti-Intellectual Joke-Book
PART III BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
8 ‘Messages of the Soul’: Tears, Smiles, Laughter and Emotions Expressed by them in Byzantine Literature
9 Towards a Byzantine Theory of the Comic?
10 Staging Laughter and Tears: Libanius, Chrysostom and the Riot of the Statues
11 Lamenting for the Fall of Jerusalem in the Seventh Century CE
12 Guiding Grief: Liturgical Poetry and Ritual Lamentation in Early Byzantium
PART IV LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION
13 Mime and the Dangers of Laughter in Late Antiquity
14 Laughter on Display: Mimic Performances and the Danger of Laughing in Byzantium
15 The Power of Amusement and the Amusement of Power: The Princely Frescoes of St Sophia, Kiev, and their Connections to the Byzantine World
16 Laughing at Eros and Aphrodite: Sexual Inversion and its Resolution in the Classicising Arts of Medieval Byzantium
PART V GENDER, GENRE AND LANGUAGE: LOSS AND SURVIVAL
17 Comforting Tears and Suggestive Smiles: To Laugh and Cry in the Komnenian Novel
18 Do Brothers Weep? Male Grief, Mourning, Lament and Tears in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium
19 Laments by Nicetas Choniates and Others for the Fall of Constantinople in 1204
20 ‘Words Filled With Tears’: Amorous Discourse as Lamentation in the Palaiologan Romances
21 The Tragic, the Comic and the Tragicomic in Cretan Renaissance Literature
22 Belisarius in the Shadow Theatre: The Private Calvary of a Legendary General
23 Afterword
Appendix CHYROGLES, or The Girl With Two Husbands
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Rerum

Beteiligte: Alexiou, Margaret [Verfasser:in]; Agapitos, Panagiotis [Mitwirkende:r]; Alexiou, Margaret [Mitwirkende:r]; Angold, Michael [Mitwirkende:r]; Ashbrook Harvey, Susan [Mitwirkende:r]; Beaton, Roderick [Mitwirkende:r]; Beta, Simone [Mitwirkende:r]; Boeck, Elena [Mitwirkende:r]; Cairns, Douglas [Verfasser:in]; Cairns, Douglas [Mitwirkende:r]; Halliwell, Stephen [Mitwirkende:r]; Herrin, Judith [Mitwirkende:r]; Hinterberger, Martin [Mitwirkende:r]; Holton, David [Mitwirkende:r]; Maciver, Calum [Mitwirkende:r]; Marciniak, Przemysław [Mitwirkende:r]; Mullett, Margaret [Mitwirkende:r]; Nilsson, Ingela [Mitwirkende:r]; Papadogiannakis, Ioannis [Mitwirkende:r]; Pizzone, Aglae [Mitwirkende:r]; Seaford, Richard [Mitwirkende:r]; Stavrakopoulou, Anna [Mitwirkende:r]; Stenger, Jan R. [Mitwirkende:r]; Walker, Alicia [Mitwirkende:r]; Webb, Ruth [Mitwirkende:r]; West, Stephanie [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (504 p.); 30 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781474403801

ISBN: 9781474403801

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RVK-Notation: NH 6880 : Kulturgeschichte

Schlagwörter: Emotions in art ; Emotions in literature ; Emotions in music ; Greek literature History and criticism ; Classics & Ancient History ; HISTORY / Ancient / General

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Explores the range and complexity of human emotions and their transmission across cultural traditionsWhat makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and music?Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears. With a focus on the tragic, the comic and the tragicomic dimensions of laughter and tears in art, literature and performance, as well as on their emotional, socio-cultural and religious significance, it breaks new ground in the study of ancient and Byzantine affectivity.Key featuresIncludes an international cast of 25 distinguished contributors Prominence is given to performative arts and to interactions with other cultures Transitions from Late Antiquity to Byzantium, and from Byzantium to the Renaissance, form focal points from which contributors look backwards, forwards and sidewaysHighlights the variety, audacity and quality of the finest Byzantine works and the extent to which they anticipated the renaissance

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