Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
- PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
- PART III BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
- PART IV LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION
- 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
17 - Comforting Tears and Suggestive Smiles: To Laugh and Cry in the Komnenian Novel
from PART V - GENDER, GENRE AND LANGUAGE: LOSS AND SURVIVAL
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
- PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
- PART III BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
- PART IV LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION
- 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
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- Greek Laughter and TearsAntiquity and After, pp. 291 - 311Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017