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Chapter 8 - Performative Reading in the Late Byzantine Theatron

from The Power of Rhetoric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2018

Teresa Shawcross
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
Ida Toth
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Key studies include: Alexander, J. C., ‘Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance Between Ritual and Strategy’ in Alexander, J. C., Giesen, B. and Mast, J. L., eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual (Cambridge, 2006), 2990; E. C. Bourbouhakis, ‘Rhetoric and Performance’ in P. Stephenson, The Byzantine World (London, 2010), 175–87 and E. C. Bourbouhakis, ‘The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Choniates’ Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον’ in A. Pizzone, ed., The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature. Modes, Functions, Identities (Berlin, 2014), 201–24; N. Gaul, ‘The Letter in the Theatron: Epistolary Voice, Character, Soul and their Audience’ in A. Riehle, ed., A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Leiden, forthcoming); I. Toth, ‘Rhetorical Theatron in Late Byzantium: the Example of Palaiologan Imperial Orations’ in M. Grünbart, ed., Theatron: Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter (Berlin, 2007), 429–48.Google Scholar

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