TY - BOOK AU - Halszka Leleń PY - 2020 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2194-5918 SN - 9783631832905 TI - Sanctity as a Story T2 - Narrative (In)Variants of the Saint DO - 10.3726/b17454 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057215 N2 - 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. KW - sanctity, storytelling in various arts and media, historic and contemporary facets of hagiography, the saints in the media, narrative patterns in hagiography, short stories, film, drama, biography and others, aesthetic patterns LA - English ER -