Writing and Holiness : : The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East / / Derek Krueger.
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 authors...
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Krueger, Derek, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Writing and Holiness : The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East / Derek Krueger. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2004 1 online resource (312 p.) : 11 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Literary Composition as a Religious Activity -- Chapter 2. Typology and Hagiography: Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History -- Chapter 3. Biblical Authors: The Evangelists as Saints -- Chapter 4. Hagiography as Devotion: Writing in the Cult of the Saints -- Chapter 5. Hagiography as Asceticism: Humility as Authorial Practice -- Chapter 6. Hagiography as Liturgy: Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina -- Chapter 7. Textual Bodies: Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching of Addai -- Chapter 8. Textuality and Redemption: The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist -- Chapter 9. Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity: Genre and Discipline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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?"Each of the texts examined here used writing as a technique for the representation of holiness. Some are narrative representations of saints that facilitate veneration; others are collections of accounts of miracles, composed to publicize a shrine. Rather than viewing an author's piety as a barrier to historical inquiry, Krueger argues that consideration of writing as a form of piety opens windows onto new modes of practice. He interprets Christian authors as participants in the religious system they described, as devotees, monastics, and faithful emulators of the saints, and he shows how their literary practice integrated authorship into other Christian practices, such as asceticism, devotion, pilgrimage, liturgy, and sacrifice. In considering the distinctly literary contributions to the formation of Christian piety in late antiquity, Writing and Holiness uncovers Christian literary theories with implications for both Eastern and Western medieval literatures. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Christian hagiography. Christian literature, Early History and criticism. Literature. RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Ancient Studies. Cultural Studies. Religion. Religious Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Religion 9783110413588 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812221473 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202533 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812202533 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812202533/original |
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Krueger, Derek, Krueger, Derek, Writing and Holiness : The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East / Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Literary Composition as a Religious Activity -- Chapter 2. Typology and Hagiography: Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History -- Chapter 3. Biblical Authors: The Evangelists as Saints -- Chapter 4. Hagiography as Devotion: Writing in the Cult of the Saints -- Chapter 5. Hagiography as Asceticism: Humility as Authorial Practice -- Chapter 6. Hagiography as Liturgy: Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina -- Chapter 7. Textual Bodies: Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching of Addai -- Chapter 8. Textuality and Redemption: The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist -- Chapter 9. Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity: Genre and Discipline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Literary Composition as a Religious Activity -- Chapter 2. Typology and Hagiography: Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History -- Chapter 3. Biblical Authors: The Evangelists as Saints -- Chapter 4. Hagiography as Devotion: Writing in the Cult of the Saints -- Chapter 5. Hagiography as Asceticism: Humility as Authorial Practice -- Chapter 6. Hagiography as Liturgy: Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina -- Chapter 7. Textual Bodies: Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching of Addai -- Chapter 8. Textuality and Redemption: The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist -- Chapter 9. Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity: Genre and Discipline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Literary Composition as a Religious Activity -- Chapter 2. Typology and Hagiography: Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History -- Chapter 3. Biblical Authors: The Evangelists as Saints -- Chapter 4. Hagiography as Devotion: Writing in the Cult of the Saints -- Chapter 5. Hagiography as Asceticism: Humility as Authorial Practice -- Chapter 6. Hagiography as Liturgy: Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina -- Chapter 7. Textual Bodies: Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching of Addai -- Chapter 8. Textuality and Redemption: The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist -- Chapter 9. Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity: Genre and Discipline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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