Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists

by Jonathan Goldberg

Book Overview

Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various biblical and hagiographic texts that involve someone so named, the book takes as its ultimate concern the kinds of material life that outlive the human subject.

From the incommensurate, anachronic instances in which Saint Mark can be located--among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823282074
• ISBN13: 9780823282074
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"