Eva von Contzen

The Scottish Legendary (eBook, ePUB)

Towards a poetics of hagiographic narration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. The only extant collection of saints' lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, the work scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its implicit assumptions about literariness, and the functions of telling the lives of the saints. The fifty saints' legends are remarkable for their narrative art: the enjoyment of reading the legends is heightened, while didactic and edifying content is toned down. Focusing on the role of the narrator, the depiction of the saintly characters, their interiority, as well as temporal and spatial parameters, it is demonstrated that the Scottish poet has adapted the traditional material to the needs of an audience versed in reading romance and other secular genres. This study scrutinises the implications of the Scottish poet's narrative strategies with respect to the Scottishness of the Legendary and its overall place in the hagiographic landscape of late medieval Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526100276
• Artikelnr.: 57473511

Autorenporträt

Eva von Contzen is Junior Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Scottish Legendary and narrative art 1. Towards a
narrative poetics of medieval saints' lives 2. Teacher and poet: the
narrator in the Scottish Legendary 3. Words and deeds: character depiction
and direct discourse 4. Putting the saint in perspective: ideology and
hagiographic narration 5. Saintly interiority: narrating conscience and
consciousness 6. The past, a foreign country: time, space and the
Scottishness of the Scottish Legendary Conclusion: A poetics of
hagiographic narration Appendix: The Scottish Legendary: authorship,
dialect, and arrangement Bibliography Index