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Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography by Julie Van Pelt; Koen De Temmerman is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julie Van Pelt; Koen De Temmerman
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004685758
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Religion, Medieval, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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