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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... textual museum of rarities to go alongside the Church Treasury of relics and precious artefacts),3 are only one kind of story that pilgrimage generates. They reflect the textual recognition of an apparent immanence of the sacred, which ...
... textual constructions. Turning. experience. into. words. When the two disciples rushed back to Jerusalem to tell others of 'what things were done in the way', their act of narration contained little that was premeditated: indeed, they had ...
... textual equivalents of votive offerings: the telling, like the physical offering at a shrine, acts as a gift, or performance of thanksgiving to the divine. Mitchell's Mormons give testimonies that are personal yet formulaic ...
... textual range. This opposite is, of course, equally determined by the texts. Thus, pilgrimage is the paradigmatic idiom for the representation of travel in the Western tradition (cf. Coleman, forthcoming), and its failure – whether cast ...
... textual and oral accounts, and all involve forms of pilgrimage (cf. Coleman and Elsner 1995). Given the complexities of conceptualising comparative notions of personhood, agency, text and authorship, this volume focuses on Christianity ...
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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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