Object's details: The Rite-of-Passage Structure in Medieval and Early Modern Visionary Accounts

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Title:
The Rite-of-Passage Structure in Medieval and Early Modern Visionary Accounts
Creator:
Kowzan, Jacek
Contributor:
Kazik, Joanna;
Mirowska, Paulina;
University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce, Institute of Polish Language and Literature and Applied Linguistics;
Jacek Kowzan is a graduate of the University of Wrocław, Poland. He also studied and lectured at the University of Glasgow, UK. Currently he is a lecturer at the Institute of Polish Language and Literature and Applied Linguistics at the University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce, Poland. His main research interests focus on early Polish literature and culture, especially late medieval and early modern eschatology in its European context. He is the author of Quattuor hominum novissima. Dzieje serii tematycznej czterech rzeczy ostatecznych w literaturze staropolskiej (“The History of the Four Last Things” Thematic Series in Old Polish Literature).
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The aim of this paper is to apply Arnold van Gennep’s and Victor Turner’s conceptual scheme of the rite of passage to medieval and early modern visions of the hereafter. Most of the visionary accounts (e.g., Drythelm’s Vision, Thurkill’s Vision, St. Patrick’s Purgatory) share a great deal of similar material. Usually these are stories about a man who is mysteriously taken to the otherworld during his deep sleep, trance, severe sickness or a similar state which, in Carol Zaleski’s words, is called a near-death experience. Afterwards a visionary is brought back to tell his community about the things he saw. From such a composition, one can work out that visions, in most cases, have a threefold structure of rites de passage: separation (pre-liminal phase), transition (liminal or margin phase) and aggregation (post-liminal phase). A threshold (limen) stage between separation from one state and integration into another is a crucial one as it implicates not only transgression but also transformation of a visionary. The liminal phase is being regarded here as a point of entry and exit between zones of this experience. It also includes the suspension of social roles and, by definition, being “not in control.” On his return, the visionary can be perceived by the community as a messenger or a prophet, depending on the circumstances.;
Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00.
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free access
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe
Date:
2019.06.10;
2013
Type:
Book chapter
Language:
Polish
Format:
application/pdf;
image/jpeg
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Kazik J., Mirowska P. (red.), Studies in English Drama and Poetry vol. 3. Reading subversion and transgression, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013;;
Studies in English Drama and Poetry;;
3
Subject:
rite-of-passage structure;
medieval and early modern visionary accounts
Identifier:
Kowzan J., The Rite-of-Passage Structure in Medieval and Early Modern Visionary Accounts, [w:] Studies in English Drama and Poetry vol. 3. Reading subversion and transgression, Kazik J., Mirowska P. (red.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013, s. 177-187, doi: 10.18778/7525-994-0.15;
978-83-7525-994-0;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/28811 ;
10.18778/7525-994-0.15
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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