Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g
Reihe: James Clarke
Narrative, Emotion and Identity in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g
Reihe: James Clarke
ISBN: 978-0-227-17657-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
An investigation of the narrative devices used in the Thecla episode of the Acts of Paul, and their parallels with contemporary pagan fiction.
Second century apocryphal Christian texts are Christian fiction: they draw on the motifs of contemporary pagan stories of romance, travel and adventure to entertain their readers, but also to explore what it means to be Christian. The Thecla episode in the Apocryphal Acts of Paul recounts the conversion of a young pagan woman, her rejection of marriage, her narrow escapes from martyrdom and the end of her story as an independent, ascetic evangelist. In Thecla's Devotion, J.D. McLarty reads the Thecla episode against a paradigm pagan romance, Callirhoe: for both texts the passions are key to the unfolding of the plot - how are unruly emotions to be managed and controlled? The pagan would answer, 'through reason'. This study uses the portrayal of emotion within character and plot to explore the response of the Thecla episode to this key question for Christian identity formation.
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Chapter 1 Contexts
Part 1 - Plot
Chapter 2. Reading the Plot
Chapter 3. The Reader's Journey
Chapter 4. Time
Chapter 5. Space and Place
Part 1 Conclusions: the affective force of the plot
Part 2 - Character
Chapter 6. Emotion and Characterisation
Chapter 7. Characterisation in Callirhoe
Chapter 8. Characterisation in the Acts of Thecla
Part 2 Conclusions: the characterisation of the Acts of Thecla read against Callirhoe
Chapter 9. Emotion and Identity in the Acts of Thecla
Appendix: The Plot of Callirhoe
Bibliography
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