Hermeneutical Narratives in Art, Literature, and Communication - by Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak & Paula García-Ramírez

Book Synopsis

Exploring the relationship between hermeneutics and the arts, including painting, music, and literature, this book builds on hermeneutics from a practical perspective, connecting this area of critical research with others to reveal how it is viewed from different perspectives.

International and interdisciplinary in scope, this edited volume draws on the work of scholars and practitioners working across a variety of subject areas, themes and topics, including philosophy, literature, religious paintings, musical oeuvres, Chinese urbanscapes, Moroccan proverbs, and Ukrainian internet blogs. Focusing on the idea of hermeneutics as a discipline that can connect different areas of interest, the book offers an inside view into how the contributors 'interpret' it within their own academic remits, demonstrating its presence in qualitative academic interpretations and canonical contemporary research in humanities.

Review Quotes

The wealth and variety of themes and approaches to hermeneutical narratives in literature, the visual arts and communicative activities are impressive. Nineteen scholars engage in hermeneutic encounters with self-knowledge, Paul Ricoeur, the mundane aspects of experience and more. An enlightening example of interdisciplinary research.

About the Author

Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak is Assistant Professor at the Opole University of Technology, Poland.

Paula García-Ramírez is Associate Professor at the University of Jaén, Spain.