Literature, Biographism and the Communion of Saints: The Case of Jan Józef Lipski

This article examines the theological underpinnings of one twentieth-century argument over the legitimacy of biographical interpretation in literary studies. The argument was offered by the Polish scholar and critic Jan Józef Lipski. He can be interpreted as claiming that the impulse to read literar...

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主要作者: Jajdelski, Wojciech (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: 2006
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2006, 卷: 20, 发布: 2, Pages: 140-156
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总结:This article examines the theological underpinnings of one twentieth-century argument over the legitimacy of biographical interpretation in literary studies. The argument was offered by the Polish scholar and critic Jan Józef Lipski. He can be interpreted as claiming that the impulse to read literary works as expressive of an individual personality, otherwise inaccessible to the reader, was motivated by the same sort of disappointment with ordinary human contact which underlay a particular version of the doctrine of the communion of saints. A discussion of Lipski's view of the biographical method is followed by a detailed commentary on the alleged analogy between literary communication and the Christian dogma in question.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contains:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fri067