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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... spirituality; yet, it is equally important to state that words help frame experience. Once the originating theophanic event is recounted, it can direct the subsequent perceptions of pilgrims about a given site, as well as providing much ...
... spiritually powerful narrative persona that will itself be copied by others (see Coleman, in preparation). The diverse connections between authority and authorship must be examined carefully and comparatively. What we have said so far ...
... spirituality and identity. Moore's account also points forward to another paper, that of Lock, in her emphasis on distance in articulating the object of desire. The Protestantism expressed by Sydney can be shown historically to lead ...
... spirituality, is distinctly removed from a premodern sensibility. As Howard has argued (1980: 23–5), in a point echoed by some of the contributors to this volume, medieval and earlier Christian pilgrims expressed a worry over the ...
... spiritual fulfilment, whose forms of actual achievement may be as mutually exclusive as the 'bowing down to wood and stone' of Lock's Orthodox devotees of icons and the Protestant distance of his Anglican tourists. It is something of ...
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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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