The Voices of Others in Egeria's Pilgrim Narrative
An essential feature of Egeria's description of her travels around the Holy Land at the end of the fourth century is her abundant use of quotation. Instead of simply summarizing the information conveyed by local monks and bishops, for example, she supplies their actual words. She also includes...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 553-578 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aetheria, Peregrinatio ad loca sancta
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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| Summary: | An essential feature of Egeria's description of her travels around the Holy Land at the end of the fourth century is her abundant use of quotation. Instead of simply summarizing the information conveyed by local monks and bishops, for example, she supplies their actual words. She also includes local sounds, describing the inarticulate cries of the resident peoples and transcribing local Greek terms. Within this rich sonoscape, her own voice emerges in passages of reported dialogue, as well as in instances of direct address to her readers. This use of quotation suggests transcription, but is in fact a mimetic device that directs our attention to the prominent role of the narrator within the text, and to Egeria's relationship with the women to whom she writes. The voices of others, we discover, are always entangled with the narrating instance. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2021.0039 |