Format:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 320 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789004685758
Series Statement:
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024 478
Content:
This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as invention, authentication, intertextuality, imagination and fictionality. Together, they represent an innovative exploration of how these concepts relate to hagiographical discourses of truth and the religious notion of belief, while paying due attention to the various factors and contexts that impact readers’ responses
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Front Matter -- Preliminary Material /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004685079
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography Leiden : Brill, 2024 ISBN 9789004685079
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004685758
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