Storyworlds in Short Narratives

Preface


Notes on Editors and Contributors





Introduction


?Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou





Part 1: Tale Theory and Poetics


1 The Art of Short Narrative: Toward a Theory of the Late Antique and Byzantine Tale


?Stavroula Constantinou





2 Telling a Thauma in Hagiography and Paradoxography


?Christian Hogel





3 To Render Unbelievable Tales Believable: the Storyworlds of Paradoxography


?Ingela Nilsson





Part 2: The Art of Storytelling


4 Didactic Tales in Galen


?Sophia Xenophontos





5 Repetition and the Storyteller's Profile in Early Byzantine Tale Collections


?Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou





6 Circulation of Hagiographical Tales along the Incense Route: Storytelling as Technology of Enchantment


?Nicolo Sassi





Part 3: Tales in Collections


7 Stunning with a List, Dazzling with a Catalogue: the Form of Paradoxographical and Christian Miracle Collections Revisited


?Julia Doroszewska





8 (Auto)biographical, Marvelous, and Supernatural Stories in Early Byzantine Hagiographical Anthologies


?Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou





9 Space in Edifying Stories: the Case of Anastasios Sinaites


?Marketa Kulhankova





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