Autonomie und Providenz. C. F. Meyers "Der Heilige" und "Die Versuchung des Pescara"

Spalinger, Roland (2022). Autonomie und Providenz. C. F. Meyers "Der Heilige" und "Die Versuchung des Pescara". In: Blum, Daniela; Detering, Nicolas; Gunreben, Marie; von Lüpke, Beatrice (eds.) Entscheidung zur Heiligkeit? Autonomie und Providenz im legendarischen Erzählen vom Mittelalter bis zur Moderne. Myosotis. Forschungen zur europäischen Traditionsgeschichte: Vol. 10 (pp. 239-255). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter

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In his novellas "The Saint" and "The Temptation of Pescara", C. F. Meyer takes the notion that the literary portrayal of saints oscillates between autonomy and providence as an occasion to grapple with a theoretical conundrum: How is it possible to narrate a saint? To answer this question, Meyer makes use of the realist evidence regime on the one hand, which he links to the legendary narrative, and the New Testament temptation pericope on the other, which already poses the problem of autonomy for Christ himself and which can thus also be applied to Pescara’s 'Imitatio Christi'.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages > Modern German Literary Studies

Graduate School:

Graduate School of the Arts (GSA) [discontinued]
Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities (GSAH)

UniBE Contributor:

Spalinger, Roland

Subjects:

200 Religion > 210 Philosophy & theory of religion
200 Religion > 230 Christianity & Christian theology
400 Language > 430 German & related languages
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 830 German & related literatures

ISBN:

978-3-8253-8548-4

Series:

Myosotis. Forschungen zur europäischen Traditionsgeschichte

Publisher:

Universitätsverlag Winter

Language:

German

Submitter:

Roland Spalinger

Date Deposited:

21 Jul 2022 10:16

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:21

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/171433

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/171433

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