Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Preface xi
5. Notes on Contributors xv
6. 1 Introduction 1
7. PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
8. 2 Laughter and Tears in Early Greek Literature 27
9. 3 Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian 36
10. 4 Parody, Symbol and the Literary Past in Lucian 54
11. PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
12. 5 ‘Tantalus Ever in Tears’: The Greek Anthology as a Source of Emotions in Late Antiquity 75
13. 6 ‘Do You Think You’re Clever? Solve This Riddle, Then!’ The Comic Side of Byzantine Enigmatic Poetry 87
14. 7 Philogelos: An Anti-Intellectual Joke-Book 104
15. PART III BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
16. 8 ‘Messages of the Soul’: Tears, Smiles, Laughter and Emotions Expressed by them in Byzantine Literature 125
17. 9 Towards a Byzantine Theory of the Comic? 146
18. 10 Staging Laughter and Tears: Libanius, Chrysostom and the Riot of the Statues 166
19. 11 Lamenting for the Fall of Jerusalem in the Seventh Century CE 187
20. 12 Guiding Grief: Liturgical Poetry and Ritual Lamentation in Early Byzantium 199
21. PART IV LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION
22. 13 Mime and the Dangers of Laughter in Late Antiquity 219
23. 14 Laughter on Display: Mimic Performances and the Danger of Laughing in Byzantium 232
24. 15 The Power of Amusement and the Amusement of Power: The Princely Frescoes of St Sophia, Kiev, and their Connections to the Byzantine World 243
25. 16 Laughing at Eros and Aphrodite: Sexual Inversion and its Resolution in the Classicising Arts of Medieval Byzantium 263
26. PART V GENDER, GENRE AND LANGUAGE: LOSS AND SURVIVAL
27. 17 Comforting Tears and Suggestive Smiles: To Laugh and Cry in the Komnenian Novel 291
28. 18 Do Brothers Weep? Male Grief, Mourning, Lament and Tears in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium 312
29. 19 Laments by Nicetas Choniates and Others for the Fall of Constantinople in 1204 338
30. 20 ‘Words Filled With Tears’: Amorous Discourse as Lamentation in the Palaiologan Romances 353
31. 21 The Tragic, the Comic and the Tragicomic in Cretan Renaissance Literature 375
32. 22 Belisarius in the Shadow Theatre: The Private Calvary of a Legendary General 390
33. 23 Afterword 403
34. Appendix CHYROGLES, or The Girl With Two Husbands 413
35. Bibliography 420
36. Index Locorum 472
37. Index Rerum 482