The Time Of Cruel Miracles

Download or read book The Time of Cruel Miracles written by Roman Katsman and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Contents: Myth and Dialogue -- Mythopoesis as Revelation -- Mythopoesis as Ethics and Aesthetics -- Mythopoesis as Narrative Intercultural Ethics -- Mythopoesis as Journey -- Mythopoesis as Scandal.