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Broadly speaking, a conversion narrative is a narrative that relates the operation of conversion, usually religious. As a specific aspect of American literary and religious history, the conversion narrative was an important facet of Puritan sacred and secular society in New England during a period stretching roughly from 1630 to the end of the ...
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Conversion is often viewed as a sudden and fundamental shift in worldview, which changes the individual in considerable ways. William James wrote in 1906 that to be converted signifies the change “by which a self hitherto divided, and consciously wrong, inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right, superior and happy ...
- Anna Mansson McGinty
- 2006
Conversion narratives are personal accounts detailing the process of an individual's spiritual transformation, often involving a profound change in beliefs or faith. These narratives are significant in Puritan literature and early American writing as they illustrate the intense religious fervor and the emphasis on personal experience in ...
The conversion narrative, according to autobiography theorists Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, “develops through a linear pattern—descent into darkness, struggle, moment of crisis, conversion to new beliefs and worldview, and consolidation of a new communal identity” (70).
Sep 18, 2022 · An essential function of the conversion narrative is to explain and justify change, and therefore to legitimise the conversion.
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Below we present a typical definition: Narratology is the study of narrative as a genre. Its objective is to describe the con-stant variables and combinations typical of narrative and to clarify how the character-istics of narrative texts connect with the framework of theoretical models (typologies). (Fludernik 2009: 8)
Jan 20, 2022 · What kind of narrated experiences become cultural masterplots and genres in different historical contexts? This article introduces an approach to medieval exemplary narratives of conversion that combines narrative theory and comparatist attention to the historical context and forms of narrative experientiality.
