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The problem of literary form according to Kenneth Burke

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Gajewski K.

Nauka

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2007

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issue 4

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The article presents Kenneth Burke's concept of literary form. According to Burke, literary form arouses and fulfills reader's desires. Burke presents several types or aspects of form, such as syllogistic progression, qualitative progression, repetitive form, conventional form and minor form. On the one hand, this repertoire of apparently heterogenic literary forms is compatible with traditional literary terms, but on the other hand, the notion of literary form can be applied, in Kantian manner, to human experience and sensual perception in general. Therefore, the question about the specificity of literature and the relation of form and content emerges. One of the suggested answers is that the function of literature is to propose symbols, which are patterns of human experience and play a compensatory role.

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Nestalnost žanrovskih granica: lažno pitanje ili suština književnog stvaranja?

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Milena Ilišević M.

Studia Slavica

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2013

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vol. 17

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issue 1

7-14

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for the centuries long theoretical researches doesn’t imply neither the precise terminology nor the unique and final definitions of fundamental concepts of literary theory. We need to look for the cause of this situation, primarily, in the fact that literature develops all the times, it accommodates to social conditions in the times it was emerging in. Literature is a result of the interaction with other areas of human creation or with other areas of arts, philosophy, psychology, religion... The literary genre is a very controversial concept in the history of the literary-theoretical thinking. These problems attract the attention of literary researchers for centuries. This article tries to answer a question of the definition of literary genres and their volatility, paying a special attention to the theoretical views of Emil Staiger and his conception of the lyric, epic and dramatical, and theory of drama of Manfred Pfister.

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The Book of Job as a Drama: Interpretation Possibilities

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Szepe A.

Roczniki Kulturoznawcze

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2018

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vol. 9

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issue 3

51-66

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Artykuł bada możliwości interpretacyjne struktury Księgi Hioba jako struktury dramatu. Pokazuje, że niektóre pozorne paradoksy i sprzeczności mogą być rozumiane jako wewnętrzna logika dramatu. Pozorna niespójność Prologu i późniejszych twierdzeń Hioba może być zniwelowana, gdy uważnie prześledzi się ciąg przyczynowo-skutkowy oraz będzie się rozumieć wydarzenia jako dziejące się w ciągle aktualizowanej teraźniejszości. Podejście dramatyczne pozwala widzieć spotkanie Boga i Szatana jako nieudaną próbę poczynienia zakładu. Dramat jako pozbawiony wszechwiedzącego narratora pokazuje różnorodne postawy, bez bezpośredniego wskazania, która z nich jest najlepsza. Styl wypowiedzi głównego bohatera jest pełen paradoksów i wykluczających się nawzajem stwierdzeń. Może on być porównany ze współczesną techniką literacką strumienia świadomości. Punkt kulminacyjny dramatu pokazuje trwałą zmianę w postawie bohatera i prowadzi do zaskakujących zmian na poziomie metalingwistycznym.

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The article examines an interpretation possibility to read the structure of the Book of Job as a drama structure. It shows that some of the apparent paradoxes and contradictions in the text can be understood as an inner logic of a drama. The seeming incoherence of narrative Prolog and Job's later statements can be easily reconciled by following through the dramatic cause-effect sequences and seeing the events as happening in permanently changing present. The dramatic approach enables to see the meeting between God and Satan as an unsuccessfully attempt to make a bet. Deprived from omniscient narrator’s perspective, the drama shows various attitudes, without pointing directly which is the best one. Full of paradoxes and contradictory statements, the main hero’s style can be compared with a modern stream of consciousness. The culminating point of the drama shows a durable change in Jobs posture and leads to surprising changes on a metalinguistic level.

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The Literary Form and the Message of John 8:31-36

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Kubiś A.

The Biblical Annals

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2014

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vol. 4

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issue 1

121-145

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The paper deals with the relationship between the literary form and the message of the pericope John 8:31-36 (along with its immediate literary context). Our examination of five different possible literary forms demonstrated that identifying the precise form bears directly on grasping the correct semantics and pragmatics of this Johannine passage. John 8:31-36 actually reflects the merging of at least two different literary forms: misunderstanding (also called riddle and test) and the covenantal offer of freedom. The ultimate meaning of the text, taken as a whole, should be seen as the offer of freedom. This, however, is misunderstood and eventually rejected by Jesus’ interlocutors, who failed to recognize in Jesus God, the Redeemer and Liberator, and thus did not pass the test of being his true disciples.

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The problem of literary form according to Kenneth Burke

Nestalnost žanrovskih granica: lažno pitanje ili suština književnog stvaranja?

The Book of Job as a Drama: Interpretation Possibilities

The Literary Form and the Message of John 8:31-36