Sanctity as a Story: Narrative (In)Variants of the Saint

by Halszka Lelen (Editor)

Overview

The book analyzes the changing story-related patterns of constructing the figures of the saint and/or some concepts of sanctity, as recorded in a variety of artistic and historic texts. The book offers systematic insight into multiple transformations and transpositions of the narrative variants, and invariants, of the genre of hagiography that once determined the dissemination of culture. The problem that is tackled is that of identifying some core essentials of the past and contemporary representations of sanctity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631832165
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/11/2020
Series:	Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives , #17
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Halszka Leleń (ed.) (PhD), University of Warmia and Mazury. She has published on contemporary English and Scottish literature, peripheral semiotic patterns and archetypes, literature of the islands, regional novel, fantastic fiction, and storytelling. She has co-edited books on new and old media, and on the saints in literature and culture.

Table of Contents

Narrative and story-telling aspects of sanctity – topos of sanctitude and figures of the saints in various media such as: medieval hagiographies, historic sources and texts of culture, short stories, plays, theatrical productions, films, religious and secular journalism.