Kdy:
21.11.2019 @ 17:30 – 19:00
2019-11-21T17:30:00+01:00
2019-11-21T19:00:00+01:00
Kde:
Faculty of Arts, room P319
nám. Jana Palacha 1/2
nám. Jana Palacha 1/2
Lecturer: Ryan Szpiech (Michigan).
Annotation:
In this lecture, I will discuss the first-person accounts of various medieval religious converts including Hermann the Jew, Abner of Burgos, and Anselm Turmeda. I will consider how the basic form of a conversion story—from Paul and Augustine to Bunyon, Rousseau, and Joyce—lends itself to narrative drama, suggesting that autobiography is not just a portrait of the self, but a story of the self’s transformation.
The lecture is a part of the series Me and the World … Autobiography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
