Sanctity as a Story

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Publishing of the monograph is partly funded by University of Warmia and
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Cover Illustration: Jerzy Durczak; a detail of polychrome Pacem in terris by
Eugeniusz Mucha (1927-2012) in Academic Church of the John Paul II
Catholic University of Lublin

ISSN 2194-5918

ISBN 978-3-631-83216-5 (Print)

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DOI 10.3726/b17454

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About the editors

The Author
Halszka Leleń (ed.) (PhD), University of Warmia and Mazury. She has published on contemporary English and Scottish literature, peripheral semiotic patterns and archetypes, literature of the islands, regional novel, fantastic fiction, and storytelling. She has co-edited books on new and old media, and on the saints in literature and culture.

About the book

Halszka Leleń (ed.)

Sanctity as a Story

The book analyzes the changing story-related patterns of constructing the figures of the saint and/or some concepts of sanctity, as recorded in a variety of artistic and historic texts. The book offers systematic insight into multiple transformations and transpositions of the narrative variants, and invariants, of the genre of hagiography that once determined the dissemination of culture. The problem that is tackled is that of identifying some core essentials of the past and contemporary representations of sanctity.

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Introduction

PART I The Poetics of the Stories of Sanctity in Various Media

Halszka Leleń

Sanctity as a Story? Preliminary Remarks on the Narrative Aspects of Sanctity

Marijana Vuković

On Reading and Non-Reading of the Martyrdom of Irenaeus of Sirmium in Two Versions of Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca (BHG 948 and BHG 949e) in the Eleventh-Century Byzantium

Halszka Leleń

Narrative Displacement and Paradigms of Sanctity in Selected Short Stories of George Mackay Brown

Anna Suwalska-Kołecka

“O God, when will this earth be ready to receive Thy saints?” The Notion of Sainthood in Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw and in Josie Rourke’s Update of the Classic

Mariola Marczak

Focus on the Invisible: The Poetics of Contemporary Religious Films

PART II  Visions of Saints and Sanctity in Culture

Marta Zając

A Holy Man or a Nice Man? Against Decorum in John Henry Newman and Elsewhere

Kamila Ciepiela

Making Sense of Holiness in the Contemporary World: A Narrative Analysis of Selected Episodes of John Paul II’s Life

On the Manifestations of Stance Towards Saints in Argumentative News Discourse

Krzysztof Kosecki

“Be laborious and diligent in your callings”: Puritan Narratives of Work and Wealth as Practical Holiness in Richard Baxter’s Christian Directory

Marcia A. Morris

Expedient Sanctity: The Making of a Russian Passion-Sufferer

Index of Names

Contributors