VNÚTORNÉ OBRAZY U KRESŤANSKÝCH MYSTIKOV. LITERÁRNO-SÉMANTICKÁ CHARAKTERISTIKA

• Authors: Magda Kučerková , Miroslava Režná

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Interior images in Christian mystics (literary-semantic characteristics)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The study offers a literary-semantic characteristic of the interior image in the writings of Christian or Roman Catholic mystics. The start point are several poetics which, from the point of view of literary-historical and cultural development, hold a relevant position their national literatures, but at the same time take part in the formation of a supra-national, universal, artistic mystical language, demonstrating – as seen in religionist approaches (e.g., M. Eliade) – several parallel and interior relations with mystical experiences in other religions. We understand the interior image as an image created in the consciousness of the mystic during a contemplative state and which the author later seeks to express in his work through language in a way that would preserve the semantic-value identity of the “seen”. It is the result of a so-called imaginative vision, and therefore has an analogic character: it is impossible to decode it literally, straightforwardly or without the knowledge of symbolic-connotative paradigm of Christianity and its imagination of the world.

Keywords

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MYSTICS; SEMANTIC; CHRISTIANITY; INTERIOR IMAGE; CONTEMPLATION; SYMBOLISM

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6 (23)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3 – 20

Contributors

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Magda Kučerková

• Katedra romanistiky, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Hodžova 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic

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Miroslava Režná