scholarly journals Sida Košutić’s Christian Mysticism – on the Periphery of the Canon of National Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 362-388
Author(s):  
Kornelija Kuvač-Levačić
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
World View ◽  
Language Model ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
The Rich

The research shows several key causes of the reception and literary-historical periphery of the rich literary oeuvre of the Croatian poet, essayist, storyteller and author of one drama, Sida Košutić. While much of the research to date has cited the ideological and world-view causes of Sida Košutić’s marginal position in the canon of national literature, the writer’s expression of the unspeakable at the key of the Christian mystical experience is predominantly explored here. Thus, this research fits in with the contemporary interest in the philosophy of language and literary theory in the problem of the expression of the unspeakable (L. Wittgenstein, K. Jaspers, J. Derrida, M. Sells, etc.). The prominent elements of mystical discourse in the writer’s lyrical expression are analyzed on the example of a poem (“Ime tvoje sveti se”) which brings the majoritiy of poetic techniques from the entire collection Vjerenička žetva. Mystical hermeticism is also one of the possible causes of the peripheral status of Sida Košutić’s work. However, if the interpretation includes postmodern approach to language, it can be concluded that the poetic expression goes beyond the semantic atomism (the unspeakable refers to different experiences, conditions and realities), opposing representationalism and referentialism language model. Sida Košutić’s critical subject finds its legitimacy in Christian mysticism. The work of this writer can be equally included in the poetic guidelines of Croatian modern literature of the first half of the 20th century, thus undermining the dominant notions of the center and periphery defined by the national literary canon.

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bowe
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Italian Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Guittone D'arezzo ◽  
The Rich ◽  
New Perspective

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of thirteenth and fourteenth-century Italy. It demonstrates the fundamental role of dialogue between and within texts in the works of four poets who represent some of the major developments in early Italian literature: Guittone d’Arezzo, Guido Guinizzelli, Guido Cavalcanti, and Dante. Rather than reading the cultural landscape through the lens of Dante’s works, significant though they may be, the first part of this study reconstructs the rich network of literary, especially poetic dialogue that was at the heart of medieval writing in Italy before and contemporary with Dante. The second part of the book uses this reconstruction to demonstrated Dante’s engagement with and indebtedness to the dynamics of exchange that characterized the practice of medieval Italian poets. The overall argument of the book, for the centrality of dialogic processes to the emerging Italian literary tradition, is underpinned by a conceptualization of dialogue in relation to medieval and modern literary theory and philosophy of language. By triangulating between Brunetto Latini’s Rettorica, Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘dialogism’, and as sense of ‘performative’ speech adapted from J. L. Austin, Poetry in Dialogue shows the openness of its corpus to new dialogues and interpretations, highlighting the instabilities of even the most apparently fixed, monumental texts (such as Dante’s Commedia).

scholarly journals Will Saudi's 2030 Vision Raise the Students’ Awareness to National Literature? Saudi Literature and Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Mubarak Altwaiji ◽  
Majed Alenezi ◽  
Sajeena Gayathrri ◽  
Ebrahim Mohammed Alwuraafi ◽  
Maryam Naif Alanazi
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Modern Identity

Forming national identity is placed on top of the seven aspects of High-Impact Educational Practices (HIEPs) in Northern Border University. Similarly, the concept of academic awareness to national literature has been one of the main challenges to national literature in the Middle East. Just as the strong presence of national identity in Saudi’s 2030 vision has initiated re-evaluations of how national identity is shaped, Saudi novel has similar concerns that inform social constructs of national identity through overarching themes and comprehensive representations of cultural issues. This study investigates the ways in which two Saudi novelists interrogate the intertwined issues shared by 2030 vision and national novel which address the archetypal Saudi identity: first, that the construction of modern identity requires much cultural openness with the world; second, that construction of Saudi identity needs exclusion of otherness; and third, that national identity depends on the rich history of two historical regions – Najd and Hijaz - that binds identity to a unified territory. The study focuses on how these novels give visibility to issues that are at the core of 2030 vision’s social and cultural aspect such as life style, appearance behaviours, attitudes, accepting differences and willingness to work and volunteer. Drawing on this narrative analysis, the study advocates for the utility of introducing national novel for undergraduate students to help them perceive identity as a position and support their identity enactment.

scholarly journals Embracing complexity: the post-secular pilgrimage of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 228-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Life Story ◽  
World View ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Transformative Process ◽  
Academic Philosopher

This article deals with the phenomenon of pilgrimage as a personal transformative process; an exploration of spiritual space rather than a journey undertaken to a physical place. The analysis focuses on the life story and authorship of the novelist and playwright Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (b. 1960). Schmitt began his career as an academic philosopher specialised in enlightenment rationality. A mystical experience in the deserts of Sahara, however, opened his eyes to the spiritual dimensions of reality and encouraged him to redirect his professional strivings from academic writing to fiction. Today, Schmitt has reached a world-wide audience with his plays and novels on interreligious dialogue, especially the series of five short novellas called Le cycle d’Invisible. These narratives all deal with inter-religious encounters in a complex and compassionate way as Schmitt is particularly concerned with preserving the mystery of the situations he describes. The atheist conviction of his previous life has thus given way to an agnostic and mystically inspired world view focusing on diversity, divinity and inexplicability: “I am obsessed with complexity”, as he puts it himself. The presentation is based on ethnographic material, and key themes to be addressed include pilgrimage as a spiritual journey, interreligious encounters and mystical experiences.

Women’s Poetry in the Magazines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Batt
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Women's Poetry ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Poetic Community ◽  
Female Poets ◽  
Poetic Culture ◽  
Shed Light

Nearly every monthly magazine published in the eighteenth century had a poetry section, a regular slot given over in each issue to poetic expression of all kinds, written by a broad range of writers, both male and female, provincial and metropolitan, amateur and established. This chapter assesses the place that women poets, both familiar and unfamiliar, occupied in the rich poetic culture that made magazines possible. Jennifer Batt’s case studies are drawn from national periodicals such as the Gentleman’s Magazine (1731–1922), London Magazine (1732–85) and British Magazine (1746–51), as well as from regional magazines. Collectively, these examples shed light on the possibilities that periodicals made available to female poets (of giving them a voice, a readership, a public profile and place within a poetic community). At the same, Batt demonstrates that women could be exploited by the medium and its editorial practices (publishing without author consent, for instance, or intrusive framing of poems) in ways that have overdetermined women poets’ critical reception.

Zacchaeus as the Rich Host of Classical Satire

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-244
Author(s):  
David H. Sick
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Table Fellowship ◽  
The Voice

This piece builds upon the work of Dennis Hamm and Mikeal Parsons to compare the character Zacchaeus of Luke 19:1–10 to the rich host of a banquet from classical satire and related genres. In this category the diminutive tax collector joins a rogues’ gallery, including Nasidienus from Horace’s Satire 2.8 and Trimalchio from Petronius’ Satyricon. Those who grumble (γογγύζειν) about Jesus’ table fellowship should be understood as his fellow dining companions. The moralizing voice of the satirist is represented by these grumbling guests, whose harping is similar to that of the Pharisees. According to recent literary theory, the voice of the satirist, in this case a Pharisaic one, is undermined by its own harshness. By weakening the criticism of the satiric voice, Luke encourages identification with the sinner Zacchaeus and thus fosters the Gospel’s general objective of salvation of the lost.


All Roads Lead to Unity: Tomasz Różycki’s Litery as a Search for the Contemporary Arché. The Philosophical Dimension of Poetic Expression

Tekstualia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (56) ◽  
pp. 127-154
Author(s):  
Przemysław Koniuszy
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Stephane Mallarme ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Actual Shape

The article analyzes Tomasz Różycki’s poetic volume Letters in the light of selected philosophical contexts in order to demonstrate the correspondence between Różycki’s poetic imagination and Heraclitus’ philosophy and the possibility of equating the letters with a logos, a fundamental concept in the Ionian philosophy of nature. Accordingly, the letter helps to connect the poetic world and the absolute sense, from which everything else results. Secondly, the potential relations between the chaos often appearing in Różycki’s poems and the apeiron of Anaximander have been pointed out. Yet another correspondence concerns the thread of unity and the struggle of opposites, the notions crucial in Greek philosophy and in the work of the Polish poet, who wrote the poem The Eternal War of Opposites. Różycki explores the relation between man who tries to understand the world around him and the reality which undergoes a permanent process of change. Love can be seen as a force that alleviates confl icts arising from rather abstract philosophical problems in the Letters. The article additionally addresses the question of the symbolism of numbers and letters in Różycki’s poetry. The connection between his poetry and the artistic creativity and world view of Stéphane Mallarmé constitutes a special context in this respect. In Różycki’s Letters, the philosophical thought often provides a key to the poet’s most important concerns: the human condition in (post)modernity, the actual shape of objects, and the forces behind the image of the moment experienced in space-time.

scholarly journals Flipside Theory: Emerging Perspectives in Literary Criticism

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Chinedu Nwadike ◽  
Chibuzo Onunkwo
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
The Rich ◽  
And Gender

Literary theories have arisen to address some perceived needs in the critical appreciation of literature but flipside theory is a novelty that fills a gap in literary theory. By means of a critical look at some literary theories particularly Formalism, Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminism but also Queer theory, New Criticism, New Historicism, postcolonialism, and reader-response, this essay establishes that a gap exists, which is the lack of a literary theory that laser-focuses on depictions of victims of social existence (people who simply for reasons of where and when they are born, where they reside and other unforeseen circumstances are pushed to the margins). Flipside criticism investigates whether such people are depicted as main characters in works of literature, and if so, how they impact society in very decisive ways such as causing the rise or fall of some important people, groups or social dynamics while still characterized as flipside society rather than developed to flipview society. While flipside literary criticism can be done on any work of literature, only works that distinctively provide this kind of plot can lay claim to being flipside works. This essay also distinguishes flipside theory from others that multitask such as Marxism, which explores the economy and class conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and feminism, which explores depictions of women (the rich and the poor alike) and issues of sex and gender. In addition, flipside theory underscores the point that society is equally constituted by both flipview society and flipside society like two sides of a coin.

scholarly journals Darwinism and Surrealism: The Case of Juliusz Słowacki’s "Samuel Zborowski"

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-375
Author(s):  
Nina Taylor-Terlecka
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
National History ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Polish Question ◽  
The Rich

Juliusz Słowacki has been acknowledged as a precursor of the Young Poland poets and recognized as one of the “Three Bards” of Polish Romanticism. A visionary of mystical experience, his later works took a focus on Polish history, including the drama Samuel Zborowski, which has been referred to as one of the boldest visionary dramas in world literature. This paper explores the relation of Juliusz Słowacki’s drama Samuel Zborowski to Darwinism and Surrealism. As a contemporary of Darwin, this paper presents several overlapping points in time between the lives of Słowacki and Darwin, as well as Słowacki’s relations to both Darwin and his predecessors. It has been argued that Samuel Zborowski is the first surrealistic work in Polish literature. It employs varied scenic tricks that can be termed surrealistic. The textual images of the work include several cinematographic special effects, and the subjects explored in Samuel Zborowski reflect a condensed, symbolic shorthand sign of cosmic experience and historiosophic meditation. At times impressionistic, the concepts therein are formulated by analogy, allusion and synthesis, with signs and images point to infinity. Taken together, we have a dramatic exposition of fundamental Genesis philosophy, interwoven and ultimately subordinate to the perennial Polish Question in the context of Romantic Messianism. The rich philosophical sources of Samuel Zborowski reveal a wealth of influences. The end result is a strange symbiosis of Poland’s national history, Słowacki’s messianistic historiosophy, and the scientific heritage of Darwin’s predecessors. 

scholarly journals Stanislav Lem on the philosophy of language: recovery from fragments of phrases

2022 ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
P. N. Baryshnikov
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Interdisciplinary Methods ◽  
Language Recovery ◽  
Linguistic Sign

This article examines some of S. Lem’s statements about his philosophical and worldview positions regarding the mysterious nature of language and the linguistic sign, the connection between language, mind and reality. The main goal of the paper is to understand what texts on the philosophy of language the Polish thinker read and what attitude he has formed towards them. Lem is the follower of an analytical intellectual culture that focuses on the naturalistic worldview and the consequences of the “linguistic turn” in Western philosophy. For Lem, language is not only an interesting philosophical object, but also a complex precise instrument of his own creative thinking. In this regard, the philosophy of language for a writer cannot be based only on logical-linguistic atomistic methodology. Lem seeks (and finds) in his contemporary interdisciplinary methods ways to combine realistic and anti-realist positions. Many concepts, such as “the effect of semantic transparency”, “polymorphic language model”, “variation model” are quite correlated with modern theories of language and require additional philosophical comments.

scholarly journals Jean Paul Sartre: the Mystical Atheist

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Gellman
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Human Condition

Within Jean Paul Sartre’s atheistic program, he objected to Christian mysticism as a delusory desire for substantive being. I suggest that a Christian mystic might reply to Sartre’s attack by claiming that Sartre indeed grasps something right about the human condition but falls short of fully understanding what he grasps. Then I argue that the true basis of Sartre’s atheism is neither philosophical nor existentialist, but rather mystical. Sartre had an early mystical atheistic intuition that later developed into atheistic mystical experience. Sartre experienced the non-existence of God. 

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