1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454952103321

Autore

Bestul Thomas H (Thomas Howard), <1942->

Titolo

Texts of the passion : Latin devotional literature and medieval society / / Thomas H. Bestul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennyslvania Press, , [1996]

©1996

ISBN

1-5128-0087-2

0-585-12648-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Middle Ages series

Disciplina

232.96/094/0902

Soggetti

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism

Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism

Literature and society - Europe - History

Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Methodology and Theoretical Orientations -- Chapter 2. Medieval Narratives of the Passion of Christ -- Chapter 3. The Representation of the Jews in Medieval Passion Narratives -- Chapter 4. Gender and the Representation of Women in Medieval Passion Narratives -- Chapter 5. The Passion of Christ and the Institution of Torture -- Appendix 1: Meditation by Bernard on the Lamentation of the Blessed Virgin -- Appendix 2: Preliminary Catalogue of Medieval Latin Passion Narratives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book Thomas H. Bestul constructs the literary history of the Latin Passion narratives, placing them within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. He examines the ways in which the Passion is narrated and renarrated in devotional treatises, paying particular attention to the modifications and enlargements of the narrative of the Passion as it is presented in the canonical gospels. Of particular interest to Bestul are the representations of Jews, women, and the body



of the crucified Christ. Bestul argues that the greatly enlarged role of the Jews in the Passion narratives of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is connected to the rising anti-Judaism of the period. He explores how the representations of women, particularly the Virgin Mary, express cultural values about the place of women in late medieval society and reveal an increased interest in female subjectivity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786243503321

Titolo

On the turn [[electronic resource] ] : the ethics of fiction in contemporary narrative in English / / edited by Barbara Arizti and Silvia Martinez-Falquina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

Newcastle, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2007

ISBN

1-4438-1043-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AriztiBarbara

Martinez-FalquinaSilvia

Disciplina

823.9209

Soggetti

Ethics in literature

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; "THANKLESS EARTH, BUT NOT ENTIRELY"; VISCERAL PERTURBATIONS AND HUMAN JUDGEMENT; IAN MCEWAN'S BLACK DOGS (1992) AND THE ETHICS OF A POST-POSTMODERN CRITICAL NEO-HUMANISM; PART II; THE ETHICS OF NARRATIVE FORM IN A.S. BYATT'S BABEL TOWER; THE ETHICS OF ROMANCE; A MOST (UN-)ETHICAL STANCE; TAKING OURSELVES FOR POETRY; PART III; BEYOND CODUCTION, REDRESSING SKINS; "I KNOW NOW THAT THIS IS THE WAY ...THE FINAL METAMORPHOSIS. I MUST DRIVE OUT MY OLD SELF AND LET THE UNIVERSE IN"

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY AND THE ARTICULATION OF IDENTITY AS REFLECTED IN JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL'S THE LAST MAGICIAN AND OYSTER THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN A CLIMATE



OF ISLAMOPHOBIA; EQUITY AS ETHICAL PRINCIPLE IN (POST-)COLONIAL LITERATURES; PART IV; THE RELEVANCE OF ORWELLIAN POLITICAL ETHICS TODAY; SERIOUSLY FUNNY AND YET NO LAUGHING MATTER; FASCISM AND NEUROSIS IN SPAIN; HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS, IMAGES, AND ETHICAL SUMMONS IN E.L. DOCTOROW'S THE MARCH; PART V; SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL? VISIONARY WRITING AND ETHICAL UNREADABILITY IN FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S TALES

"HOW CAN YOU SAY THEY'RE LIKE YOU AND ME?"THE ETHICS OF THE ADJOINING; NEW VOCABULARY OF ATTENTION; THE DANGERS AND ADVANTAGES OF THE RETURN TO ETHICS IN LITERARY CRITICISM; FINDING WHAT YOU WANT IN PAUL AUSTER'S CITY OF GLASS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English is an attempt to listen to the various voices that participate in the current dialogue on the relationship between fiction and ethics. The editors' introduction investigates the current state of affairs on the return to ethics in critical and literary consideration, and it opens up the way for the variety of approaches that follows. Participants include internationally recognized scholars like Andrew Gibson, Patricia Wau...