“I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium”: The Motif of Travel in Edifying Stories
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angličtina
Original language name
“I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium”: The Motif of Travel in Edifying Stories
Original language description
This chapter examines the theme of travel and its role in the genre of edifying story. The introduction is devoted to the perception of space in the monastic edifying narrative literature more generally. Four levels of mirroring geographical reality in literature are presented: factual reality, cultural reality, personal reality, and textual reality. Subsequently, it points three spatial concepts important for this kind of literature: first, the contrast between oikoumene and eremos, the profane and the sacred world, second, the concept of liminality, and finally, the concept of heterotopias. In the second part of the chapter, the narrative space and the motif of travel in the genre are explored from the viewpoint of these three concepts with the help of the tools of narrative theory. It is proposed to distinguish two basic variations on the theme of travel: a journey which constitutes the frame of a story or a collection, and travel as a motif on the level of a single tale, where a special subcategory of the “transcendent” mode of travelling is pointed out. In the last part of the chapter, one “travel story” from the Daniel-Sketiotes-Dossier (end of the 6th century) is closely analysed as a case study.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography
ISBN
978-1-032-29079-9
Number of pages of the result
13
Pages from-to
90-102
Number of pages of the book
272
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
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