The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era

By Judith Perkins

Book Overview

Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415113636
• ISBN13: 9780415113632
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"