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Project

: Sacred Fiction. A narratological-rhetorical analysis of novelistic topicality and generic specificity in late antique hagiography.

Literary-technical research into Christian Greek and Latin fictional texts (fourth to sixth centuries AD) Acta Martyrum and Passiones from Late Antiquity: generic specificity compared with the ancient novel, formal analysis of narrative techniques, construction of novelistic topoi and characterization-techniques; structuralist narratology and ancient rhetoric shed new light on the tradition of veneration of the martyrs.

Date:1 Jan 2010 →  31 Dec 2015
Keywords:martyrs, novel, rhetoric, hagiography
Disciplines:Theology and religious studies, Literary studies, Language studies