Emblematic Literature as a Form of Biblical Hermeneutics
Keywords:
allegory, Baroque literature, biblical hermeneutics, emblematic literature, emblematic poetry, poetics, symbol.
Abstract
The article defines the basic principles of the influence of biblical hermeneutics on the poetics of Ukrainian Baroque emblematic literature, which were determined by its general development trends. The four-sense biblical hermeneutics, founded by the Greek and Roman Church Fathers, played an important role in the formation of Ukrainian Baroque literature that mainly developed within the theological framework. The principles of biblical hermeneutics eventually began to go beyond the theological literature. Thus, the medieval interest in symbol and allegory led to the appearance of “empresas” – symbolic drawings that became fashionable at the royal courts of Europe in the 15th century. The Renaissance misunderstanding about the nature of Egyptian hieroglyphs, their perception as ideographic writing through which Egyptian priests expressed their wisdom, led to the appearance of emblems, allegorical prints with long explanatory verses, aimed at giving some moral lessons. It was believed that the emblem could communicate truth to the mind more directly than with the help of words. It was reflected in the mind, while the person’s gaze wandered through the symbolic details of the emblem. The research provides evidence that a large number of literary works of the 17th century showed the influence of the emblem on the formation of symbolic representation, arranged to reveal the truth implicitly or explicitly through the sequential placement of the elements. Many poetic images of the 17th century come from well-known emblems, which were means of perceiving, interpreting, and opening the world of the Bible to the Baroque reader.
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Baranowicz, Ł. (1676b). The book of death or the cross of Christ on which our life died, but taught death to live by itself. Through the light... JMości Oyc Łazarz Baranowicz, Archiepiscopal Czernich. lethal given. Nowogród Siewierski.
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Baranowicz, Ł. (1676с). A new measure of old faith. Nowogród Siewierski.
Chyzhevskyi, D. (1934). Philosophy of H. S. Skovoroda. Warsaw.
Chyzhevskyi, D. (1991). Essays on the history of philosophy in Ukraine. New York.
Chyzhevskyi, D. (2003). The Ukrainian literary Baroque: Essays. Harkiev: Acta.
Gadamer, H.-G. (2001). Hermeneutics and poetics: Selected works: transl. from German. Kyiv: Universe.
Galatowski, I. (1672). The True Messiah. Kiev.
Galatowski, I. (1676). A treasure of praise. Nowogrodek Siewerski.
Galatowski, I. (1683). The foundations on which the Latin people are in union with Rome. S. L.
Iser, W. (1996). The reading process: A phenomenological approach. In M. Zubrytska (Ed.), Word. Sign. Discourse: An anthology of world literary criticism of the 20th century (pp. 26–277). Lviv: Litopys.
Jaworski, S. (1691). Full of inexhaustible glory in the heraldic moon. Kiev.
Kermode, F. (1979). The genesis of secrecy. On the interpretation of narrative. Moscow: Progress.
Krysa, B. (1997). Re-creation of the world. 17th- and 18th-century Ukrainian poetry. Lviv: Svichado.
Lanovyk, Z. (2006). Biblical hermeneutics: Formation, methodology (symbolic and allegorical aspect of the literary studies discourse). Extended abstract of Doctoral thesis. T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Levchenko, N. (2018a). Biblical hermeneutics in Old Ukrainian literature. Kharkiv: Maidan.
Levchenko, N. (2018b). Biblical hermeneutics in literary texts of the European Renaissance and Ukrainian Baroque. Renaissance Studies, 29–30, 31–49.
Levchenko, N. (2019a). Exegetical forms of theophany in Stefan Yavorskyi’s works. Research of different directions of development of philological sciences in Ukraine and EU: International scientific and practical conference led by North University Centre of Baia Mare (pp. 58–63). Baia Mare, Romania.
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Lewin, P. (1984). Drama and Theater at Ukrainian Schools in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Bible as Inspiration of Images, Meanings, Style, and Stage Productions. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol VIII (1–2), 93–122.
Liamprekht, O. (2006). “Yak I call you, O Maker”: themes related to the Mother of God in the Polish-language prose of the writers of Lazar Baranovych’s circle. In L. Ushkalov (Ed.), From the Baroque to Postmodernism: A collection of academic papers of the Department of Ukrainian and World Literature at H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (IV, pp. 105–115). Kharkiv: Maidan.
Liamprekht, O. (2007). Christological motives in the Polish-language prose of Lazar Baranovych and the writers of his circle. In L. Ushkalov (Ed.), From the Baroque to Postmodernism: A collection of academic papers of the Department of Ukrainian and World Literature at H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (V, pp. 152–160). Kharkiv: Maidan.
Liamprekht, O. (2016). Polish-language Ukrainian prose of Lazar Baranovych’s circle (PhD thesis). H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv.
Matushek, O. (2000). Reception of the Assumption of the Virgin in Ukrainian Baroque literature. The Bible and Culture: A collection of scholarly articles, 2, 23–28. Chernivtsi.
Matushek, O. (2013). Sermons by Lazar Baranovych in the discourse of the Ukrainian Baroque. Kharkiv: Maidan.
Meid, V. (1974). He German baroque novel. Stuttgart.
Origen (1993). On the First Principles. Samara: RA.
Ricoeur, P. (1996). The Conflict of Interpretations. In M. Zubrytska (Ed.), Word. Sign. Discourse: An anthology of world literary criticism of the 20th century (pp. 227–242). Lviv: Litopys.
Sarbiewski, M. (1958). Lectures on poetics (praecepta poetica). Wrocław: National Institute for them. Ossoliński.
Sofronova, L. (1981). Poetics of the Slavic theatre of the 17th and the first half of the 18th century. Poland. Ukraine. Russia. Moscow: Nauka.
Sokołowska, J., Żukowska, K. (Eds.). (1965). Polish Baroque poets, flight. I. Warsaw: State Publishing Institute.
Stepovyk, D. (1986). Leontii Tarasevych and Ukrainian Baroque art. Kyiv: Naukova dumka.
Ushkalov, L. (1994). Ukrainian Baroque world: Philological essays. Kharkiv: About.
Ushkalov, L. (1997). Hryhorii Skovoroda and Ancient Greek and Roman culture. Kharkiv: Known.
Ushkalov, L. (1998). Saint Augustine and Ukrainian literature of the 17th – 18th centuries. Academic Papers of Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society: A New Series, Vol 7, 33–45.
Ushkalov, L. (1999a). Biblical hermeneutics of Hryhorii Skovoroda within the framework of Ukrainian Baroque spiritual thinking. Academic Papers of Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society: A New Series, Vol 8, 23–45.
Ushkalov, L. (1999b). From the history of 17th- and 18th-century Ukrainian literature. Kharkiv: Act.
Ushkalov, L. (2011). From the Baroque to Postmodernism: Essays. Kyiv: Food-T.
Ushkalov, L. (2014). Literature and philosophy: The Ukrainian Baroque epoch. Kharkiv: Mai but.
Ushkalov, L. (2016). Ukraine and Europe: Essays on the history of literature and philosophy. Kharkiv: Mai but.
Zosimova, O. (2003). Interpretation of the image of the Mother of God in the Ukrainian Baroque sermon. In L. Ushkalov (Ed.), From the Baroque to Postmodernism: A collection of academic papers of the Department of Ukrainian and World Literature at H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (II, pp. 36–52). Kharkiv: Mai but.
Zosimova, O. V. (2007). Motif “vanitas vanitatum” in the Ukrainian poetry of the second half of the 17th – the early 18th century. Extended abstract of PhD thesis. H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv.
Zosimova, O. V. (2008). The image of world in Ukrainian Baroque poetry. Journal of Sumy State University. Philology Series, Vol: 2, 66–71.
Published
2020-09-08
How to Cite
Levchenko, N., Liamprekht, O., Zosimova, O., Varenikoba, O., & Boiko, S. (2020). Emblematic Literature as a Form of Biblical Hermeneutics. Amazonia Investiga, 9(32), 61-69. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2020.32.08.7
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