Title: | Between In-Vocation and Pro-Vocation : A Hermeneutics of the Poetic Prayer |
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Authors: | ID Hołda, Małgorzata (Author) |
Files: | PDF - Presentation file, download (406,53 KB) MD5: E42DC543724F9CC1C139C869A80FF35F
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Language: | English |
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Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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Organization: | INR - Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities
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Abstract: | This article investigates the phenomenon of poetic prayer as one that happens in the liminal space between the in-vocation of a close relationship with God and the provocation of versatile responses to God’s presence. The hermeneutic in-between of an experience of God—intimate, ecstatic, and absolutizing, but also unsettling, doubting, and desperate—engenders a genuine possibility to investigate the less obvious aspects of poetry as prayer, and to delve deeper into its complexities and subtleties. The analyzed poems by G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, and R. M. Rilke disclose the inner world of a human being who yearns for God, but also has the courage to question and listen to an inner voice that torments and tears asunder. A hermeneutic reading of poetry as prayer invites us to acknowledge that an authentic and close relationship with God goes beyond an equivocal and facile response and entails what is sidelined, destabilizing, or even threatening to the safe self. The hermeneutic examination of poetic prayer also inspires us to think of the human body as a legitimate and meaningful site of the encounter between the human and the divine. |
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Keywords: | hermeneutics, poetic prayer, G. M. Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke |
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Publication status: | Published |
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Publication version: | Version of Record |
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Publication date: | 23.06.2022 |
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Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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Number of pages: | str. 275-300 |
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Numbering: | Letn. 31, št. 120/121 |
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UDC: | 82.09:801.73 |
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ISSN on article: | 1318-3362 |
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DOI: | 10.32022/PHI31.2022.120-121.12 |
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COBISS.SI-ID: | 119806211 |
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Publication date in DiRROS: | 25.10.2024 |
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Views: | 36 |
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Downloads: | 13 |
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