9780415127066 - The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era von Perkins, Judith (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Small octavo, paper covers, x, 254 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Routledge, London / New York, 1995. IX,254p. Paperback. Lower corner front cover as well as first pages a bit creased. Ex libris H.F.J. Horstmanshoff glued to inside front cover. ?The central claim of Judith Perkin?s provocative study is tat the early Christian era witnessed the construction of a radically new cultural subject that she identifies as ?the suffering self? She demonstrates how certain Christian and non-Christian authors of the early imperial period, rejecting the dominant inherited protocols of self-mastery (particularly through the rational soul?s domination of the body), began not only to represent the ?human self as a body in pain?, but also to valorise suffering as the basis of an intimate relationship with the divine (?). In the texts she examines, Perkins finds suffering being embraced and transformed into a source of power or transcendence. Although her analysis privileges ?narrative representation?, her agenda is historical, not narrowly literary. Perkins understands that texts both reflect and reproduce ?reality?, and her grander thesis is that ?the representation in early Christian narratives of a community if sufferers and the persecuted worked ? to provide a self-definition that enabled the growth of Christianity as institution.? In the end, then, Perkin?s larger concern is to locate the origins of the later ?triumph? of Christianity within an earlier ?discursive struggle? between competing modes of ?self-apprehension?, a competition from which the ?suffering self? emerged victorious is later antiquity. (?) The sweep of Perkin?s assemblage of ancient texts, and especially her willingness to read across apparent religious and genre boundaries, puts her in good company (particularly among others who have been restoring the Greek romance and the Apocryphal Acts to academic respectability). With similar timeliness, Perkins has moored her study to a wide range of carefully chosen and employed authorities drawn from the overlapping reals of cultural theory, literary criticism, and gender studies. Thus Foucault, Geertz, Greenblatt, Suleiman, and others provide Perkins with many of the tools to unearth the implications of her texts. Indeed, openly announced ?theory? consistently informs her arguments in constructive and sophisticated ways. (?) Consequently, ?The Suffering Self? is rife with insights on individual problems and specific texts.? (DENNIS E. TROUT in Church History, 1998, pp. 562-564).

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 264 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328. . 1995. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.