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Record Number:
2182
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Papaioannou , Eustratios N.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Michael Psellos' Rhetorical Gender
Source:
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 24, ( 2000): Pages 133 - 146.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Byzantium
Femininity in Literature
Gender in Literature
Greek Literature
Psellos, Michael, Historian- Letters
Rhetoric
Sources
Synesios of Cirene, Bishop of Ptolemais and Author
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Eastern Mediterranean
Century:
5, 11
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
The following article discusses the rhetoric of Michael Psellos in light of his construction of a rhetorical gender. Focusing on one of his letters (to Ioannes Doukas, Sathas 72) where Psellos declares that he is female, the article proceeds to identify his textual source as Synesios of Kyrene (ca. 370-413). The comparison of text and intertext shows that, while Synesios uses femininity as a rhetorical motif, Psellos elevates it to a tool of a rhetorical self-identification defined by the specific social context of the eleventh century. [Reproduced by permission of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham].
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Author's Affiliation:
Catholic University of America
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2000.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
03070131