Sacrifice, Suffering, and Salvation: A Brief Aesthetic and Theological Comparative Analysis of Two Great Symbolic Images of Divine Love

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham M. Schweig
Author(s):  
Ksenia A. Potashova

The relevance of the issue is due to the need of clarifying the features of A. S. Griboyedov’s creative method. The subject of research is the poetics of pictorial depiction developed in Caucasian texts of the poet. Poetic system of the poem by A. S. Griboyedov's “Predators on Chegem” (1825), which is characterized by the symbolism of images, appears as the beginning of established tradition of a realistic depiction of the Caucasus. The paper outlines a peculiar way of seeing the poet, which consists in examining pictures around him, which according to his artistic system turns out to be identical to the process of comprehending the world. The novelty of the research is associated with the analysis of little-known sources in terms of poetics, renown for its successful attempts of visualizing an artistic image. The author displays the results of a comparative analysis of the draft and the white paper of the poem “Predators on Chegem”: identified and commented text corrections of the poet help to trace the evolution of the author's thought. Identifying of the features of recreation of space turns out to be the key to understanding the A. S. Griboyedov’s artistic thinking. The study highlights peculiarities of the artistic method in the “Caucasian text” A. S. Griboedov, emphasizes the importance of visualizing tools for creating natural, national, everyday pictures of the Caucasus. Representing Caucasian conflict in visual and symbolic images, A. S. Griboyedov synthesizes the genres of landscape lyrics, elegy, battle ode, and lays down the tradition of a realistic depiction of the Caucasus, further developed in M. Y. Lermontov’s works.


Author(s):  
З.Б. Цаллагова

Поэтико-семантическую структуру различных жанров осетинской народной афористики формируют поэтические тропы, среди которых наряду с метафорой и эпитетом особое место занимают олицетворение и сравнение. Названные средства создания образности несут не только орнаментальные, украшающие, но и структурирующие смысловые функции: такая амбивалентность художественных тропов предопределена своеобразием поэтической природы народных афоризмов, художественной эстетикой минимальных фольклорных форм, нацеленных на то, чтобы вложить глубокий смысл в лаконично оформленную фразу. Сравнительно-сопоставительный анализ олицетворения и сравнения в различных видах осетинской народной афористики выявляет, что в эти поэтические фигуры полностью укладывается весь состав афористического высказывания, содержащего назидательные предписания и предостережения, описание различных социальных и природных явлений, а также качеств и характеристик предметов, людей, животных. Идиоматика таких высказываний, обуславливающая трудность восприятия их людьми иноэтничной культуры и перевода на другие языки, базируется на смысловых ключах и символических образах осетинской культурной традиции. Последние являют собой некий культурный код, позволяющий людям данного этноса «отмыкать» вход в матрицу традиционного наследия. А специальное лингвострановедческое изучение данного фольклорного пласта вкупе с рассмотрением иноэтничных афористических аналогий дает не только представление о характере национально особенных афористических образов, но и методологическую возможность постичь глубинные смыслы осетинского языка и культуры представителями других языков и культур. The poetic-semantic structure of the various genres of the Ossetian folk aphoristics form poetic tropes, among which, alongside with metaphor and epithet, impersonation and simile occupy a special place. The above-mentioned means of creating figurativeness bear not only ornamental, decorative, but also structuring, semantic functions: such ambivalence of the poetic tropes is predetermined by the uniqueness of the poetic nature of folk aphorisms, artistic aesthetics of minimal folk forms intended to enclose depth in a laconically formulated phrase. Comparative analysis of impersonation and simile in various types of Ossetian folk aphoristics reveals that these poetic figures fully fit the whole composition of aphoristic utterance containing edifying instructions and warnings, a description of various social and natural phenomena, as well as the qualities and characteristics of objects, people, animals. The idiomatics of such utterances, which determines the difficulty of their perception by people of a foreign ethnic culture and translation into other languages, is based on the semantic keys and symbolic images of the Ossetian cultural tradition. The latter are a kind of cultural code that allows people of this ethnic group to “unlock” the entrance to the matrix of traditional heritage. And a special linguistic-cultural study of this folklore stratum, together with consideration of foreign aphoristic analogies, provides not only an idea of he nature of nationally specific aphoristic images, but a methodological possibility to comprehend the deep meanings of the Ossetian language and culture by representatives of other languages and cultures.  


Author(s):  
Erica Wickerson

This chapter takes a broader approach to the analysis of subjective temporal experience. It explores the ways in which particular images that have symbolic value or motifs that gain additional significance through their repetition further the sense of temporal movement across a text. The analysis focuses on Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Tonio Kröger, and includes a comparative analysis with Theodor Storm’s Immensee, which served as an inspiration for Mann. It builds on Genette’s terminology to suggest that there is a difference between shifts in temporal perspective and shifts in temporal location, both of which, it is argued, can be prompted by or encapsulated through symbolic images. The chapter also proposes the concept of ‘meta-muthos’ whereby a single image may contain the overall plot structure of a narrative in miniature and thereby have multidirectional temporal power, which complicates the reader’s sense of narrative time.


2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 269-299
Author(s):  
Janna C. Merrick

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.


2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 398-398
Author(s):  
Luis H. Braga ◽  
Joao L. Pippi Salle ◽  
Sumit Dave ◽  
Sean Skeldon ◽  
Armando J. Lorenzo ◽  
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