Paradox as an Artistic Means in the Style of “Weaving Words” (based on the Life of Sergius of Radonezh) Cover Image

Парадокс как художественное средство в стиле «плетение словес» (на примере Жития Сергия Радонежского)
Paradox as an Artistic Means in the Style of “Weaving Words” (based on the Life of Sergius of Radonezh)

Author(s): Svetlana Shumilo
Subject(s): History of Church(es), Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe ChAT
Keywords: literary paradox; antithesis; Epiphanius the Wise; weaving words; hagiography

Summary/Abstract: The literary paradox as an artistic device was often used in Old Russian literature of the “weaving of words” style. Antitheses, antinomies and oppositions play a special role in the hagiographic works of Epiphanius the Wise: the author emphasizes the most important ideas of the work with the help of the literary paradox: the idea of holiness, the opposition of earthly and heavenly life, the idea of miracle and the presence of the Divine.

  • Issue Year: 61/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 123-147
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish