Eine moderne Gottesrede: zum Problem des „Sacrum“ in ausgewählten Psalm-Gedichten der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur
Modern speaking about god: the problem of the “sacred” in contemporary German literature on the basis on selected psalm poems

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the issue of the “sacred” in contemporary German poetry, basing on selected psalm poems by Reiner Kunze, Ralf Rothmann, Wilhelm Willms and Eva Zeller. A theoretical basis for the present study is provided by the work of Rudolf Otto, together with some conclusions made by Polish and German literary scholars who have dealt with the issue. The objective is to look at the ways in which the “sacred” constitutes itself in a literary work on the planes of the vocabulary, thematic content and axiology. The author has attempted to demonstrate a correspondence between the semantic aspect of the text and the sphere of the “sacred”. The latter is understood, first, as the transcendent - more precisely as the divine, tending towards the absolute, and secondly - as a form of beliefs related to a particular religion, in this case - to Christianity. The egocentric method assumes that the “sacred” is inherent in a literary text itself, while the phenomenological approach enables observation of the phenomenon of the “sacred” in the text without being conditioned by any particular religion.

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