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Indeed , I believe that the Byzantine Iliad is not the only late - Byzantine narrative , reworked on a Greek model . LateByzantine transformations of the Alexander Romance have to be discussed as similar instances .
Indeed , I believe that the Byzantine Iliad is not the only late - Byzantine narrative , reworked on a Greek model . LateByzantine transformations of the Alexander Romance have to be discussed as similar instances .
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On a narrative level he is from the beginning what he will ... In “ biographical ” romances , time in narrative does not leave the heroes physically untouched : it leads to the end of their existence . They may have won each other ...
On a narrative level he is from the beginning what he will ... In “ biographical ” romances , time in narrative does not leave the heroes physically untouched : it leads to the end of their existence . They may have won each other ...
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It does not explain , for example , the rather sudden change in the narrative ( even on the level of microstructure ) in several texts , when the story comes to its unhappy end . This sudden change from happiness to death appears in the ...
It does not explain , for example , the rather sudden change in the narrative ( even on the level of microstructure ) in several texts , when the story comes to its unhappy end . This sudden change from happiness to death appears in the ...
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