Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe

10.1075/llsee ◽  
2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Literary Studies

A Critical Analysis of the Concept of “Gnosticism” in Polish Literary Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-66
Author(s):  
Fryderyk Kwiatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
Hans Jonas

Abstract In Polish literary-historical criticism, the concept of Gnosticism has been used most frequently as a hermeneutical category that makes it possible to understand better the oeuvre of authors from Central and Eastern Europe. Polish scholars have successfully identified (neo)gnostic ideas present in the works of Jerzy Hulewicz, Tadeusz Miciński, and Franz Kafka. By referring to the works of Hans Jonas, Kurt Rudolph, and Jerzy Prokopiuk, many of them, unfortunately, have reproduced stereotypes on Gnosticism. In light of more recent studies on Gnosticism, the conclusions of their inquiries have become problematic. The main goal of this paper, therefore, is to highlight the most common errors present in the examination of Polish literary scholars from the perspective of Gnostic studies, as well as the inaccuracies in their methodology that stem from outdated scholarly materials.

scholarly journals The idea of Central Europe: literary projections (M. Kundera, D. Kiš, J. Andrukhovych)

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Maryna Hohulia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Milan Kundera ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
The Aesthetic

Background: The talks about Central or Central-Eastern Europe are actualized by new political and ontological challenges and feelings of obstruction when one after another Soviet interventions took place in this space. M. Kundera's essay "The Tragedy of Central Europe" is quite quoted and analyzed not only in literary studies, but also in philosophical, historical, political and other studies. His text inspired others authors to create their own vision of the Central Europe. But it’s one of the first attempts of a comparative analysis of the aesthetic and philosophical ideas of Kundera, Kiš, and Andrukhovych has been made. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to clarify the peculiarities of the expression of the idea of Central Europe in the aesthetic and philosophical thought of Milan Kundera, Danylo Kiš, Yurii Andrukhovych, thus demonstrating the various manifestations of this concept in Slavic literature. Results: Central Europe (in Adrukhovych case is Eastern-Central Europe) is a floating cultural space with apocalyptic and anti-imperial character wich has post-Habsburg and urban dominants. Oppositions of “one's own” and “foreign”, “cultural” and “barbaric”, “harmonious” and “imposed” are clearly traced. Literary projections of Central Europe are accompanied by attempts to reconstruct it, recreate it from ruins, and fix the vanishing world, where universal (Habsburg heritage) predominates, in which national (in these cases Czech, Jewish, Ukrainian) and anti-colonial issues are intertwined. Key words: Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, prose, space, apocalyptic, anti-imperialism.

scholarly journals Rzut oka na trylogię (pod redakcją) Danuty Ulickiej

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Skubaczewska-Pniewska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Cognitive Value ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The article contains a synthetic overview of the trilogy The Age of Theory, edited by Danuta Ulicka. It is the first comprehensive study of the achievements of Polish theoretical literary studies since its birth in the 1920s. The edition includes a multi-author monograph, organized according to “cultural themes” (as understood by Opler), to which the author of the article devotes most of her attention,and an extensive selection of texts preceded by factual introductions (two volumes of anthology) representative of the problem blocks discussed in the first part. Without questioning the content of the anthology, and especially the cognitive value of the monograph, which is based on innovative methodological assumptions and proves that modern literary theory was born in Central and Eastern Europe, and Polish works played an important role in its development, the author wishes it included the work of W. Borowy, the pioneer of intertextuality or J. Baudouin de Courtenay’s texts, which foresaw heteroglosia and minus-device.

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