Biblia Lutra. Biblia w literaturze niemieckojęzycznej

• Authors: Marzena Górecka
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Five major phases of interrelation between the Bible and literature may be distinguished in German literary history. During the Middle Ages, when the Church and Christian faith played the dominant role, the Bible was treated in literary circles as a work in itself. Authors of the abundant biblical epic poetry, affirmatively paraphrasing Scripture texts, initiated the emergence and development of national literature. The works of that period had a propagandist character and served Christianization as well as the deepening of the faith. The original sense and meaning of the Bible was challenged – in the name of science and the social idea – during the period of the Enlightenment. The Bible seen as poetry endowed with wonderful rhythm, having powerful imaginative impact, and containing elements of Eastern folklore became popular and enjoyed its renaissance in the 19th century, mainly on Herder’s account. Contemporary literature employs the language of the Bible not as ornamentation but as key element of poetic expression, and biblical characters serve either autoreflection or the presentation of archaeological archetypes. 20th century German literature tends to have critical and negating biblical stylization. Such stylization results when the author’s intentions and value system do not agree with what the biblical text contains, and when the word of God is used for the purpose of alienation and parody. Affirmative biblical stylization occurs sporadically in contem- porary literature. The most common kind of biblical stylization, typical of modernist and postmodernist lyric poetry, is partial stylization, serving polemic purposes or alternative solutions.

Keywords

PL

Biblia, literatura niemieckoje˛ zyczna, epika biblijna, transfiguracja biblijna, stylizacja biblijna

EN

Bible, biblical epic poetry, germane literature, biblical stylization

• Publisher: Komitet Nauk Teologicznych PAN
• Journal: Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 135-146

Dates

published

2020-04-24

Contributors

author

Marzena Górecka