Space in Edifying Stories: The Case of Anastasios Sinaites

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004707351_011" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004707351_011</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Space in Edifying Stories: The Case of Anastasios Sinaites

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The edifying story, a minor but prolific hagiographic genre, is one of the most concise Byzantine narrative forms. Given its brevity, there is usually not much room left for descriptions of the scenery and places in the stories. Still, the construction and perception of space often play a more important role in this genre than in saints’ lives, because edifying stories, similarly as novels and unlike saints’ lives, focus on a relatively limited time span, but often extend the narration in space. This chapter examines the notion and the function of space in these narratives, while taking the first collection by Anastasios Sinaites as a case study. It analyses the texts with the help of the tools of narrative theory, focusing especially on three concepts relevant for the cultural reality of edifying story: the dichotomy between the profane and the sacred space, the liminal character of the space and the ‘heterotopia’. It presents the use and combination of various spatial topoi of monastic literature in Anastasios’ first collection, and it claims that the narrative space in this collection also has an organizing function.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Space in Edifying Stories: The Case of Anastasios Sinaites

Popis výsledku anglicky

The edifying story, a minor but prolific hagiographic genre, is one of the most concise Byzantine narrative forms. Given its brevity, there is usually not much room left for descriptions of the scenery and places in the stories. Still, the construction and perception of space often play a more important role in this genre than in saints’ lives, because edifying stories, similarly as novels and unlike saints’ lives, focus on a relatively limited time span, but often extend the narration in space. This chapter examines the notion and the function of space in these narratives, while taking the first collection by Anastasios Sinaites as a case study. It analyses the texts with the help of the tools of narrative theory, focusing especially on three concepts relevant for the cultural reality of edifying story: the dichotomy between the profane and the sacred space, the liminal character of the space and the ‘heterotopia’. It presents the use and combination of various spatial topoi of monastic literature in Anastasios’ first collection, and it claims that the narrative space in this collection also has an organizing function.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Storyworlds in Short Narratives. Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales

ISBN

978-90-04-70735-1

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

221-238

Počet stran knihy

244

Název nakladatele

Brill

Místo vydání

Leiden - Boston

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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