Pilgrim Voices: Narrative and Authorship in Christian PilgrimageSimon Coleman, John Elsner Berghahn Books, 01.10.2002 - 200 Seiten Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history and theology. To date, relatively little work has been devoted to the issue of pilgrimage as writing and specifically as a form of travel-writing. The aim of the interdisciplinary essays gathered here is to examine the relations of Christian pilgrimage to the numerous narratives, which it generates and upon which it depends. Authors reveal not only the tensions between oral and written accounts but also the frequent ambiguities of journeys - the possibilities of shifts between secular and sacred forms and accounts of travel. Above all, the papers reveal the self-generating and multiple-authored characteristics of pilgrimage narrative: stories of past pilgrimage experience generate future stories and even future journeys. |
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... century nun Egeria (Wilkinson 1999), involve the reading of scriptures at significant places, juxtaposing canonical text (often appropriated bodily through reading) and individual experience. If Mormons point to a framing of physical ...
... century narrative of pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and Pierre Loti's account of his personal and initially nonreligious pilgrimage to temples of Angkor, published in 1912. In further contrast to Williams, Petsalis-Diomidis argues that ...
... century travellernarrators who construct a distanced sublime in which the unreachable becomes transcendent, even as it signals the supposed victory of optical propriety over the temptations of the haptic. In a sense, Loti's failure to ...
... century on many practical guides for travellers and pilgrims appear. Nonetheless, while such guides provide itineraries and name the places to be seen, in most cases little sense of the author's self is provided. Of course, one of the ...
... century to Henri de Castela at the start of the seventeenth, structure their processual descriptions in near-identical terms. Beauvau, with his almost derogatory 'couple of prayers' seems to have set the discursive habits of pilgrims ...
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Pilgrimage into Words and Images | 40 |
The Pilgrimage of Passion in Sidneys Arcadia | 61 |
Narratives of Transformation | 84 |
Bowing Down to Wood and Stone | 110 |
Postcards from the Edge of History | 133 |
Index | 158 |
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