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“I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium”: The Motif of Travel in Edifying Stories

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta

Základní údaje

Originální název

“I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium”: The Motif of Travel in Edifying Stories

Vydání

New York, Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography, od s. 90-102, 13 s. 2023

Nakladatel

Routledge

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

ISBN

978-1-032-29079-9

Klíčová slova anglicky

Byzantine literature; edifying story; hagiography; journey; travel; liminality; heterotopia; Daniel Sketiotes

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 20. 1. 2023 17:46, doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Kulhánková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

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.