The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon

ISBN-13: 9783631377673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 236 str.

Roman Katsman

Opis

On the basis of Dostoevsky and Agnon, this book analyzes the problem of literary mythopoesis. Guided by a personalistic-dialogical conception of myth, the author elaborates a theory of literary mythopoesis and develops a method of studying mythopoetic processes on different levels of meaning in a work of literature. As a result, mythopoesis is revealed as one of the fundamental mechanisms of producing a complex of structures, while mythopoetic criticism functions as a dialogue between different cultures thus documenting the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in literature.

Spis treści

Contents : Myth and Dialogue - Mythopoesis as Revelation - Mythopoesis as Ethics and Aesthetics - Mythopoesis as Narrative Intercultural Ethics - Mythopoesis as Journey - Mythopoesis as Scandal.

O autorze

The Author: Roman Katsman was born in 1969 in Ukraine. He is living in Israel since 1990. Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University (Israel). Disciplines: Comparative literature and Hebrew literature. He is a lecturer of the Jewish People Literature Dpt. at Bar-Ilan University.