The Voices of Others in Egeria's Pilgrim Narrative

• Autores: Blake Leyerle
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2021, págs. 553-578
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An essential feature of Egeria's description of her travels around the Holy Land at the end of the fourth century is her abundant use of quotation. Instead of simply summarizing the information conveyed by local monks and bishops, for example, she supplies their actual words. She also includes local sounds, describing the inarticulate cries of the resident peoples and transcribing local Greek terms. Within this rich sonoscape, her own voice emerges in passages of reported dialogue, as well as in instances of direct address to her readers. This use of quotation suggests transcription, but is in fact a mimetic device that directs our attention to the prominent role of the narrator within the text, and to Egeria's relationship with the women to whom she writes. The voices of others, we discover, are always entangled with the narrating instance.