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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... particular worlds of discourse. Thus, even in asserting his voice over that of the priest, Williams's Beauvau is still having to locate himself in the context of certain genres of constructing meaning. Second, there is the ambiguity ...
... particular form of travel and of travel-writing. It is almost as if, even by the standards of the modern guide-book culture or of Grand Tour guide-book preparation, Christian pilgrimage has been the supremely overdetermined journey ...
... particular dynastic allegiance, which distinguishes him from the other, French, nobles on the journey. For in his repeated efforts to differentiate himself, both from pilgrims and their ways of seeing, and from the others in his ...
... particular argument concerning the uselessness of narratives of the self. The man knows that if his text is not a prayer to God, or a panegyric to his Prince, he should not be writing all. Much as it is in part his task to commemorate ...
... particular, the trucheman, or interpreter (for more on this term, see Gomez-Géraud 1987). The interpreter who accompanied Regnaut and his fellow-pilgrims was clearly part of the Franciscan pilgrim set-up, and assisted them in all their ...
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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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