National Repository of Grey Literature 2 records found  Search took 0.00 seconds. 
In The Light of Kabbalah: Jewish Mistique in Polish Literature in The Interwar Period
Benešová, Michala ; Poslední, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee) ; Sobotková, Marie (referee)
Thesis In the Light of Kabbalah: Jewish Mystique in Polish Literature in the Interwar Period deals with different models of reflection of Jewish religious and mystical tradition in the Polish interwar literature (on the example of three authors representing different ways of perceiving their own Jewish roots as well as the processing of themes based on the tradition of Jewish mysticism). Aleksander Wat, originally a futurist, was critical of the Jewish religious tradition - but still cannot his own "Jewishness" escape; prose writer Bruno Schulz offers an unique vision of cosmogony and eschatology reminiscent of - besides other things - selected concepts of Kabbalah; Bolesław Leśmianʼs relationship to this tradition is the looses, but on the other hand his method of working with motives which can interpreted in the context of the Jewish religious tradition is very original. Literary work of all three - as the heirs to the "people of the Book" - is marked by a specific relationship to language and the written word. In addition to this theme we deal with e.g. the Golem motive, the idea of the creation of the world or the idea of God. These analytical chapters are preceded by a theoretical and methodological introduction based on the traditions of literary hermeneutics, but also on selected concepts of...
Literary hermeneutics as an initiation and contraposition of philosophical hermeneutics
CHVOJKA, Peter
The main theme of this thesis is the concept of literary hermeneutics which appears here as a rather incongruous fusion of ontological philosophy and interpretive method of literary criticism. The thesis adopts a critical attitude towards both the above mentioned poles: philosophical hermeneutics and literary interpretation. The polemic with the paradigm of philosophy and literary criticism takes a form of three inquiries into the semiotic models of three founding cultures of western thought: classical antiquity, Judaism and Christianity. A revision of the key points of contact among these civilizations is undertaken - the thesis also traces the influence of such contacts on their conceptions of signs, writing, text, interpretation and before all on human self reflection. In the works of Derrida and Ricoeur we discover a dialogue between Judaism and Christianity in the new context of literary criticism. In the end, literary hermeneutics is seen in terms of a dialectic tension between the deconstruction and the possibility of understanding. The role of literary hermeneutics lies in referring to the religious dimension of literature.

Interested in being notified about new results for this query?
Subscribe to the RSS feed.