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Representing Mount Wutai's Past: A Study of Chinese and Japanese miracle tales about the Five Terrace Mountain
… built around a close reading of five principal miracle tales, various versions of which appear in court memorials, clerical biographies, diaries, statuary sets, temple chronicles, local gazetteers, and inscriptions preserved in China and Japan. Comparing the different portrayals of the mountain …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… a reading of a sequence of saints’ lives and miracles in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS 3516. Chapter 4 explores the formal qualities of vernacular hagiography with reference to fanfiction. Chapter 5 reads the lives of Saints Juliane, Katherine and …