The Historical Present in the Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions of Digenis Akritis : A Narratological Insight
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F22%3A00128209" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/22:00128209 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16695" target="_blank" >https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16695</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Historical Present in the Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions of Digenis Akritis : A Narratological Insight
Original language description
“Digenis Akritis” well known as the only representative of genuinely Byzantine heroic poetry. This study focuses on the two oldest versions of the poem (Grottaferrata and Escorial) and provides a comparative analysis of their use of the so-called historical present tense, which is a generally neglected topic in the study of Byzantine literature. We distinguish between the diegetic type of the device, which is used in both versions, and the mimetic type which occurs in scenic narrative and is frequently used in the E version. Additionally, we recognize a ‘connective’ function of the diegetic HP used in formulas in the E version. The study of the historical present tense helps us to see more clearly the differences in the overall narrative technique of these two version: G recounts events with a larger degree of distance and abstraction. Its sparse use of the HP corresponds with authoritative written discourse. In E, on the other hand, the abundant use in scenic narratives of HPs with an immersive function provides more detailed, visualizing, and engaging descriptions of events.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-05387S" target="_blank" >GA19-05387S: A Narratological Commentary on the Byzantine Epos Digenis Akritis</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
ISSN
0017-3916
e-ISSN
2159-3159
Volume of the periodical
62
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
365-384
UT code for WoS article
000923604100007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85146750381