The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago
This paper offers a reading of recent accounts of journeys on one of the great Christian pilgrimage routes, to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. It focuses on the common narrative strategy of a disrupted sense of time expressed by the pilgrim-authors, and argues that this trope is intrinsi...
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| description | This paper offers a reading of recent accounts of journeys on one of the great Christian pilgrimage routes, to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. It focuses on the common narrative strategy of a disrupted sense of time expressed by the pilgrim-authors, and argues that this trope is intrinsic to texts that suggest that time has been ‘crossed’ and that the author has undertaken a ‘medieval’ experience. It is argued that this trope of crossing time is closely linked to two central themes of contemporary Santiago texts: the construction of the author as an authentic pilgrim, and the experience of forms of community that are outside the norm in the pilgrim's everyday life. These common themes in Santiago pilgrim narratives are said to be reflective of the authors’ distrust of modernity. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-208502017-09-13T16:00:10Z The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago Genoni, Paul Way of St James time authenticity Santiago de Compostela pilgrims Camino community modernity medievalism pilgrimage This paper offers a reading of recent accounts of journeys on one of the great Christian pilgrimage routes, to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. It focuses on the common narrative strategy of a disrupted sense of time expressed by the pilgrim-authors, and argues that this trope is intrinsic to texts that suggest that time has been ‘crossed’ and that the author has undertaken a ‘medieval’ experience. It is argued that this trope of crossing time is closely linked to two central themes of contemporary Santiago texts: the construction of the author as an authentic pilgrim, and the experience of forms of community that are outside the norm in the pilgrim's everyday life. These common themes in Santiago pilgrim narratives are said to be reflective of the authors’ distrust of modernity. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20850 10.1080/13645145.2011.565580 Routledge fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Way of St James time authenticity Santiago de Compostela pilgrims Camino community modernity medievalism pilgrimage Genoni, Paul The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago |
| title | The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago |
| title_full | The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago |
| title_fullStr | The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago |
| title_full_unstemmed | The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago |
| title_short | The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago |
| title_sort | pilgrim's progress across time: medievalism and modernity on the road to santiago |
| topic | Way of St James time authenticity Santiago de Compostela pilgrims Camino community modernity medievalism pilgrimage |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20850 |