Scottish Legendary - Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration

Informationen zum Autor Anke Bernau is lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester Klappentext This study places the Scottish compilation of saints' legends within the hagiographic landscape of medieval Britain. Zusammenfassung This study places the Scottish compilation of saints' legends within the hagiographic landscape of medieval Britain. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Scottish Legendary and narrative art1. Towards a narrative poetics of medieval saints' lives 2. Teacher and poet: the narrator in the Scottish Legendary 3. Words and deeds: character depiction and direct discourse 4. Putting the saint in perspective: ideology and hagiographic narration 5. Saintly interiority: narrating conscience and consciousness 6. The past, a foreign country: time, space and the Scottishness of the Scottish Legendary Conclusion: A poetics of hagiographic narration Appendix: The Scottish Legendary: authorship, dialect, and arrangement Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Eva von Contzen, Eva von Contzen
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2016
• EAN: 9780719095962
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9596-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature; Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Anthologies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Anglo-Saxon / Old English