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Interpretacja kerygmatyczna w doświadczeniu historyka literatury
Kerygmatic Interpretation in the Experience of a Historian of Literature

Author(s): Wacław Pyczek
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: history of literature; kerygma; kerygmatic interpretation; truth; word; Gospel; testimony; hermeneutics; Romanticism;

Summary/Abstract: The sketch shows the way, in which the author's method of kerygmatic interpretation suggested by Marian Maciejewski has defined the workshop and research practice of a scholar. The protagonist of the article is presented as a historian of literature practicing the kerygmatic exegesis of Romantic texts (lyric and narrative ones), who, while continuing his dialog with the tradition of research, suggests a new look at literary phenomena, using the paradigm of the apostolic (evangelical) kerygma. Such an approach to literature exhibits the human history and emphasizes the complex of existential experiences of the persons speaking (the lyrical subject, the narrator) or of the protagonists; at the same time it makes it possible to describe more fully the deep structure of the work. The scholar's concern is locating the phenomena of literature against the reality of the Word proclaimed by the Gospel. Marian Maciejewski's practice of research is presented here as a form of a certain testimony of his faithfulness to the Word.

  • Issue Year: 63/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 41-55
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish