Argues for the use of the author's comments on their works as a process for literary interpretation for teachers and students, using Warren as an example. (MM)
In the book Symbolism of the Summer Solstice: Comparative Readings, Iosefina Blazsani-Batto approaches, through a comparative perspective, a theme with wide resonances in Romanian folkloric ...mythology, but also in the universal one, taken up by many historians of religions, exegetes and, last but not least, writers. The wide area of research reflects the author's desire to document as well as possible the scholarly approach to the theme and to give secondary importance to field sources, as well as to imaginative elaborations of them. The research, especially through its various hermeneutic possibilities, is a meritorious achievement which, complemented by the author's constant preoccupation with this field, offers a textually illustrated field of analysis of the subject, both in terms of theory (ethnography) and folklore and literature.
This book constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary ...interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to put literary interpretations on various works of the absolute music canon are examined and criticized. Finally, in Part III, the question is raised as to what the human significance of absolute music is, if it does not lie in its representational or narrative content. The answer is that, as yet, philosophy has no answer, and that the question should be considered an important one for philosophers of art to consider, and to try to answer without appeal to representational or narrative content.
The rise of literary theory has brought in stylistic obscurity and arguments full of theoretical discourses in literary studies with creative writing being read through the lens of critical theories ...rooted in such diverse disciplines as philosophy, psychology, economics and linguistics causing the twin effects of a broadening of critical approaches as well as a hiatus between literary texts and theoretical perspectives so much so that some scholars like Dave Ellis and Martin Ellis have come to question the very validity of theory-informed critiques of literature. Critics are fascinated by new theories, each time they emerged breaking the shell of the former one. Failing to convince both sides, theory always faced opposition. What makes critical theory an inevitable constituent of sophisticated courses in social disciplines is the fact about language that meaning cannot be usual or fixed. Moreover, language is subject to change when received at different ends it can be received with alterations making literary interpretations far from the objective results. This article discusses how theory changed the world of literature. Further, it establishes an argument; is literary theory necessary? Or have theories become unaffordable brands in literary studies?
The article critically evaluates The Three Lives of Antigone, Slavoj Zizek's first dramatic work. Zizek's polemical rewriting of Sophocles's tragedy is examined in the broader perspective of Zizek's ...philosophy and other Antigones: those of Sophocles, Anouilh and Brecht. Slavoj Zizek has interpreted Sophocles' Antigone in numerous philosophical works. In his earlier treatises, he mainly gave a cautious summary of Hegel's, Heidegger's and Lacan's theses on Antigone; lately, however, Zizek's attitude to Sophocles's Antigone has grown decidedly negative. The main point in Zizek's critique of Sophocles' tragedy is that his Antigone is not an appropriate symbol of genuine social revolt. Based on this conviction, Zizek contrived his own version of Antigone with an alternative ending in which the choir carries out a revolution and condemns Antigone to death. Zizek's dramatic project fails to convince; rather, it reveals both the author's dramaturgical awkwardness and his unfamiliarity with some prominent philological and literary interpretations of Greek tragedy. The central political message of Zizek's play and its conceptual background is also poor: It is essentially a superficial apology for political violence, which can ultimately only be understood as a veiled defense of the political status quo.
Vom Gilgamesch-Epos bis zu Milan Kunderas ,,Unerträglicher Leichtigkeit des Seins" - Bernhard Lang untersucht religiöse Motive wie Weisheit, Religionskritik, Biographie oder Heilsgeschichte in 100 ...Werken der Weltliteratur. Damit entsteht sowohl eine theologische Literaturgeschichte wie auch eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens und Empfindens. Hesses "Siddhartha" wird ebenso untersucht wie Brochs "Schlafwandler", die Kairo-Trilogie von Machfus, Platons "Apologie des Sokrates", die "Göttliche Komödie" oder eine heilige Schrift wie das Buch der Psalmen oder das "Daodejing". Jedes der Werke wird durch Inhaltsangabe, Interpretation und Beurteilung durch Leser und Kritiker vorgestellt und erschlossen. Schriften, die als religionsfeindlich gelten, wie Nietzsches "Zarathustra", fehlen ebenso wenig wie prominente theologische und religionsphilosophische Essays. So entsteht ein gewaltiges Panorama der Religions- und Literaturgeschichte für jeden, der sich mit Weltliteratur und Weltreligionen beschäftigt. Ein Standardwerk für alle, auch Lehrer, Schüler und Studenten. Eine Fundgrube, die es bisher so nicht gab. * Eine Schatztruhe für alle, die an Literatur und religiösem Denken interessiert sind. * Die Weltliteratur der religiös motivierten Literatur in leicht fasslicher, lexikalisch aufbereiteter Form ,,Three Thousand Years of Religion and Literature: A History in One Hundred Books." Each of the one hundred works of world literature - from the epic of Gilgamesh to Milan Kunders's ,,Unbearable Lightness of Being" - has a message of wisdom, follows someone's biography, or deals with an aspect of the sacred history of humankind. For each of the works, the author offers a summary, an interpretation, and a survey of how it was received and evaluated by readers and critics, especially in modern times. The perceptive essays deal with novels such as "The
Master and Margarita" and "Robinson Crusoe", Goethe's "Faust", Shakespeare's "Hamlet", individual biblical books, the Qur'an, and many other works. Bernhard Lang is an internationally known historian of religions.
U radu se analiziraju i interpretiraju tekstovi Pavla Štoosa i Antuna Gustava Matoša, ilustrativni za njihovo kajkavsko stvaralaštvo, s jedne, te za reprezentaciju domovinskih tema, s druge strane. ...Tragom naslova Štoosove elegije iz 1831, reprintirane u središnjem preporodnom književnom glasilu Danici 1835, ali i tragom književnih interpretacija domovinske povijesti i domovinske sudbine te tragom interpoliranja kajkavske u kanon novije hrvatske književnosti najavljuju se sljedeći koraci koji bi, kao logičan nastavak u ovome tekstu predstavljenih čitanja, nužno vodili Krleži, i to ne samo pjesmi "Lamentacija o štibri", posvećenoj "Pavlu Štosu horvackemu vitiznancu ki kipa domovine ni spoznal ni prepoznal", već širem njegovu opusu. Sumirajući zaključke do kojih se predstavljenim analizama došlo, ali i pretpostavke koje su se slijedom tih zaključaka nametnule, u završnome se dijelu rada ističe kako su nacionalna povijest i nacionalna 'sudbina' činjenice koje se u hrvatskoj kulturi oblikuju koliko književnim referiranjima na stvarnost, toliko i intertekstualnim ulančavanjima, tj. opsesivnim ponavljanjima odnosno prevrednovanjima stanovitih tema i motiva. Shvaćajući ih na taj način, tj. kao činjenice koje ne prethode jeziku već se događaju (ili stvaraju) s njime i u njemu, zaključuje se kako je ono na što mislimo pod pojmovima 'hrvatska povijest' i 'hrvatska sudbina', između ostalih svojih sastavnica, i doslovce neodvojivo od onoga što bismo, citirajući Krležin "Planetarijom", mogli nazvati "kajkavske Riječi" 'starom kajkavskom kobi'.
Metin şerhi geleneğinin ortaya çıkmasında; divan şiirinde kullanılan ortak malzeme, kendine
has imaj ve hayaller, dil, biçimsel özellikler önemli bir yere sahiptir. Şârihler; zaman içinde
divan ...şiirine farklı açılardan yaklaşmış, açıklamalarında amaçlarına uygun yöntemler seçmişlerdir.
Bu yöntemler, şârihlerin divan şiirine yükledikleri anlamı göstermesi bakımından
önemlidir. Şârih; dünya görüşüne, bilgisine ve yaşadığı devrin şartlarına göre şiiri incelemiş
ve buna göre şerh etmiştir. Bu yaklaşımların ortaya çıkmasında şârihin, şiire bakış açısının
önemli bir payı vardır. Yazımızın amacı; şârihlerin, klasik dönemden başlayarak günümüze
kadar yapılan şerh çalışmalarında, divan şiirine yaklaşım tarzlarını ortaya koymaktır.
For the contstruction of text interpretation tradition, the common material which was used by
divan poetry, its genuine image and dreams, language and its structural features have a
greatmagnitute. İnterpretators approached to divan poetry from different perspectives in time,
in their explanations they preferred to use methods fitting wite their aims. These methods are
important in terms of presentation of the meaning which the interpretators gave to divan
poetry. Interpretator studied poems according to his work view, knowledge and the conditions
of his age and explained the divan poetry witenin a harmony to tense criteria. In the creation of
these criteria the perspective of the interpretator to the poem is of due importance. The aim of
our study is to present the approaches of the interpretators in the interpretation studies of
interpretators since the classical age.
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