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Literature --- Deserts in literature --- History and criticism --- Deserts in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature - History and criticism

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Deserts --- Deserts in literature --- Deserts in art --- Déserts --- Déserts dans la littérature --- Déserts dans l'art --- Religious aspects --- Aspect religieux

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In this book, Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. By reading three pivotal ancient hagiographies—the Life of Antony, the Life of Paul the Hermit, and the Life of Mary of Egypt—in conjunction with Gloria Anzaldúa’s ideas about the US/Mexican borderlands/la frontera, Mena shows readers how descriptions of the desert in these texts are replete with spaces and inhabitants that render the desert a borderland or frontier space in Anzaldúan terms. As a borderland space, the desert functions as a device for the creation of an emerging identity in late antiquity—the desert ascetic. Simultaneously, the space of the desert is created through the image of the saint. Literary critical, religious studies, and historical methodologies converge in this work in order to illuminate a heuristic tool for interpreting the desert in late antiquity and its importance for the development of desert asceticism. Anzaldúa’s theories help guide a reading especially attuned to the important relationship between space and subjectivity.

Christian hagiography. --- Deserts in literature. --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Egypt --- History --- Bible-Theology. --- Literature   . --- Middle East-History. --- Middle Eastern literature. --- Biblical Studies. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- History of the Middle East. --- Middle Eastern Literature. --- Near Eastern literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Bible—Theology. --- Middle East—History.

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Artfully bridging literary analysis, O'Connor's biography, and monastic writings, Giannone's study explores O'Connor's advocacy of self-denial and self-scrutiny as vital spiritual weapons that might be brought to bear against the antagonistic forces she found rampant in modern American life.

Desert Fathers. --- Deserts in literature. --- Hermits in literature. --- Solitude in literature. --- Asceticism in literature. --- Spiritual life in literature. --- Catholics --- Monastic and religious life in literature. --- Christian fiction, American --- Christianity and literature --- Fathers of the church --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism. --- History --- O'Connor, Flannery --- Religion. --- O'Connor, Mary Flannery --- O'Konnor, Flanneri --- О'Коннор, Фланнери

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Epic poetry, Latin --- Serpents in literature. --- Deserts in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Lucan, --- Rome --- Libya --- History --- Literature and the war. --- In literature. --- Literature and the war --- Deserts in literature --- Serpents in literature --- Snakes in literature --- History and criticism --- Lībiyā --- Jamāhīrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Lībīyah al-Shaʻbīyah al-Ishtirākīyah --- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya --- Jamahiriya arabe libyenne --- Libyen --- Libia --- Livii︠a︡ --- Popular Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya --- Libië --- Socialist People's Arab Jamahiriya --- Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya --- Luv --- Libye --- Jamahiriya arabe libyenne populaire socialiste --- Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya --- Gran Jamahiriya araba libica socialista popolare --- SPLAJ --- Jamahiriya Arab Libyan Popular Socialist --- G.S.P.L.A.J. --- GSPLAJ --- Jamāhīrīyah al-ʻUẓmá --- Jamahiriya al-Arabiya al-Libiya al-Shabiya al-Ishtirakiya al-Uzma --- Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Republic --- Grande Jamahiriya arabe populaire socialiste libyenne --- Mamlakah al-Lībīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- Grand Jamahiriya arabe libyenne populaire socialiste --- State of Libya --- Dawiat Libiya --- リビア --- Ribia --- ليبيا --- לוב --- Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism.