KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. “I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium”: The Motif of Travel in Edifying Stories. In Mihail Mitrea. Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography. New York: Routledge, 2023, p. 90-102. ISBN 978-1-032-29079-9. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9871003299943.
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Original name “I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium”: The Motif of Travel in Edifying Stories
Authors KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta.
Edition New York, Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography, p. 90-102, 13 pp. 2023.
Publisher Routledge
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
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ISBN 978-1-032-29079-9
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9871003299943
Keywords in English Byzantine literature; edifying story; hagiography; journey; travel; liminality; heterotopia; Daniel Sketiotes
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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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