Sanctity as a Story

The book analyzes the changing story-related patterns of constructing the figures of the saint and/or some concepts of sanctity, as recorded in a variety of artistic and historic texts. The book offers systematic insight into multiple transformations and transpositions of the narrative variants, and invariants, of the genre of hagiography that once determined the dissemination of culture. The problem that is tackled is that of identifying some core essentials of the past and contemporary representations of sanctity.

Autorentext

Halszka Lele (ed.) (PhD), University of Warmia and Mazury. She has published on contemporary English and Scottish literature, peripheral semiotic patterns and archetypes, literature of the islands, regional novel, fantastic fiction, and storytelling. She has co-edited books on new and old media, and on the saints in literature and culture.

Inhalt

Narrative and story-telling aspects of sanctity topos of sanctitude and figures of the saints in various media such as: medieval hagiographies, historic sources and texts of culture, short stories, plays, theatrical productions, films, religious and secular journalism.