Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian EastUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2004 - 298 Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art. Exploring the emergence of new and distinctly Christian ideas about authorship in late antiquity, Writing and Holiness probes saints' lives and hymns produced in the Greek East to reveal how the ascetic call to imitate Christ's humility rendered artistic and literary creativity problematic. In claiming authority and power, hagiographers appeared to violate the saintly practices that they sought to promote. Christian writers meditated within their texts on these tensions and ultimately developed a new set of answers to the question "What is an author?" |
Spis treści
1 Literary Composition as a Religious Activity | 1 |
Theodoret of Cyrrhuss Religious History | 15 |
The Evangelists as Saints | 33 |
Writing in the Cult of the Saints | 63 |
Humility as Authorial Practice | 94 |
Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssas Life of Macrina | 110 |
Plotinus Syncletica and the Teaching of Addai | 133 |
The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist | 159 |
Genre and Discipline | 189 |
List of Abbreviations | 199 |
Notes | 201 |
Bibliography | 259 |
291 | |
Acknovvledgments | 297 |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East Derek Krueger Ograniczony podgląd - 2013 |
Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East Derek Krueger Podgląd niedostępny - 2013 |