دانلود کتاب The "Scottish Legendary": Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction The \'Scottish Legendary\' and narrative art
Introducing the \'Scottish Legendary\'
Saints lives as narratives
Transcending genre: the Scottish Legendary and romance
Notes
1. Towards a narrative poetics of medieval saints’ lives
Narrative theory and the Scottish Legendary: a pragmatic approach
Narrative \'communication\' and the open text: performing saints’ legends
Notes
2. Teacher and poet: the narrator in the Scottish Legendary
The Prologue of the \'Scottish Legendary\'
Metanarrative and narratorial roles
Digressions and prayers
Narrating the Scottish Legendary: conclusions
Notes
3. Words and deeds: character depiction and direct discourse
Disruptive speech: female martyrs and pagan rulers
Holy and hollow? Narrating the saint
Mary of Egypt: how to talk without conversing
Theodora: the saint, the witch, and the adulterer
Andrew: a conversation postponed
Conclusions: gender, miracles, and the spoken word
Notes
4. Putting the saint in perspective: ideology and hagiographic narration
Parameters of perspective: narrating the Other
Foregrounding and the miraculous
Conclusions: authorising the hagiographic narratives
Notes
5. Saintly interiority: narrating conscience and consciousness
The representation of consciousness
Limiting the point of view
Conclusions
Notes
6. The past, a foreign country: time, space, and the Scottishness of the \'Scottish Legendary\'
Salvation history and the suspension of time
Sanctifying space(s)
How Scottish is the \'Scottish Legendary\'?
Notes
Conclusion: A poetics of hagiographic narration
Notes
Appendix: the \'Scottish Legendary\': authorship, dialect, and arrangement
Scribal practice
Dialect and dating
Dedications to the saints
Arrangement of the legends
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Online databases
Index