Character Construction in Byzantium

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Character Construction in Byzantium

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The presentation of characters emerges as a multifaceted complex of literary devices, reflections of gender, power dynamics, and social norms of the period during which a text was produced. When delving into the characters that populate Byzantine texts, we notice a predominance of elite male characters who are overrepresented at the expense of other individuals. As early as in 1998, Elizabeth A. Clark noted that the voices of real women remain elusive in premodern literary works. This observation can be extended to other social groups, including non-elite and non-binary individuals, such as peasants, servants, eunuchs, disabled persons, and eventually even the members of the Byzantine elite. Subsequently, if we cannot hear the real people, can the characters supply any insights into the Byzantine society and culture? Whose voices do actually speak? These questions and considerations lie at the core of our research project, which focuses on female characters in the late Byzantine literature.nnTo foster a more focused scholarly debate, we invite researchers to present papers addressing various facets of character construction in Byzantine texts. We encourage a cross-generic approach, examining both the factual characters of historiographic genres and the fictional characters of hagiography and verse narratives, and also aim at scrutinizing both major and minor characters in narrative literature as well as narrative sections of non-narrative genres. We wish to explore the representation of gender and of marginalized characters but also invite papers that focus on the relations between individuals and the environment.nnWe welcome presentations exploring (but not restricted to) the following topics: n• The construction of major and minor characters in Byzantine literaturen• Techniques and devices producing gender in textsn• Processes of categorization and individuationn• The connection of character construction with other narrative categories such as space and timen• The relation between characters and audiencesn• The intersectionalities of gender and class in character representation

Název v anglickém jazyce

Character Construction in Byzantium

Popis výsledku anglicky

The presentation of characters emerges as a multifaceted complex of literary devices, reflections of gender, power dynamics, and social norms of the period during which a text was produced. When delving into the characters that populate Byzantine texts, we notice a predominance of elite male characters who are overrepresented at the expense of other individuals. As early as in 1998, Elizabeth A. Clark noted that the voices of real women remain elusive in premodern literary works. This observation can be extended to other social groups, including non-elite and non-binary individuals, such as peasants, servants, eunuchs, disabled persons, and eventually even the members of the Byzantine elite. Subsequently, if we cannot hear the real people, can the characters supply any insights into the Byzantine society and culture? Whose voices do actually speak? These questions and considerations lie at the core of our research project, which focuses on female characters in the late Byzantine literature.nnTo foster a more focused scholarly debate, we invite researchers to present papers addressing various facets of character construction in Byzantine texts. We encourage a cross-generic approach, examining both the factual characters of historiographic genres and the fictional characters of hagiography and verse narratives, and also aim at scrutinizing both major and minor characters in narrative literature as well as narrative sections of non-narrative genres. We wish to explore the representation of gender and of marginalized characters but also invite papers that focus on the relations between individuals and the environment.nnWe welcome presentations exploring (but not restricted to) the following topics: n• The construction of major and minor characters in Byzantine literaturen• Techniques and devices producing gender in textsn• Processes of categorization and individuationn• The connection of character construction with other narrative categories such as space and timen• The relation between characters and audiencesn• The intersectionalities of gender and class in character representation

Druh

M - Uspořádání konference

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-06509S" target="_blank" >GA23-06509S: Cherchez la femme. Ženské postavy v pozdně byzantské literatuře</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Místo konání akce

Praha

Stát konání akce

CZ - Česká republika

Datum zahájení akce

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Datum ukončení akce

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Celkový počet účastníků

28

Počet zahraničních účastníků

20

Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků

WRD - Celosvětová akce