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The Scottish legendary : towards a poetics of hagiographic narration /
A study of the 'Scottish Legendary' of the late 14th century. The only extant collection of saints' lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, the work scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its implicit assumptions about literariness, and the functions of telling th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction The Scottish Legendary and narrative art; Introducing the Scottish Legendary; Saints lives as narratives; Transcending genre: the Scottish Legendary and romance; Notes; 1 Towards a narrative poetics of medieval saints' lives; Narrative theory and the Scottish Legendary: a pragmatic approach; Narrative 'communication' and the open text: performing saints' legends; Notes.
- 2 Teacher and poet: the narrator in the Scottish LegendaryThe Prologue of the Scottish Legendary; Metanarrative and narratorial roles; Digressions and prayers; Narrating the Scottish Legendary: conclusions; Notes; 3 Words and deeds: character depiction and direct discourse; Disruptive speech: female martyrs and pagan rulers; Holy and hollow? Narrating the saint; Mary of Egypt: how to talk without conversing; Theodora: the saint, the witch, and the adulterer; Andrew: a conversation postponed; Conclusions: gender, miracles, and the spoken word; Notes.
- 4 Putting the saint in perspective: ideology and hagiographic narrationParameters of perspective: narrating the Other; Foregrounding and the miraculous; Conclusions: authorising the hagiographic narratives; Notes; 5 Saintly interiority: narrating conscience and consciousness; The representation of consciousness; Limiting the point of view; Conclusions; Notes; 6 The past, a foreign country: time, space, and the Scottishness of the Scottish Legendary; Salvation history and the suspension of time; Sanctifying space(s); How Scottish is the Scottish Legendary?; Notes.
- Conclusion A poetics of hagiographic narrationNotes; Appendix: the Scottish Legendary: authorship, dialect, and arrangement; Scribal practice; Dialect and dating; Dedications to the saints; Arrangement of the legends; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Online databases; Index.