PT Journal
AU Sidak, P
TI The Language of Catholic Literature
SO Bohemica Olomucensia
PY 2015
BP 105
EP 128
VL 7
IS 2
DI 10.5507/bo.2015.020
DE Catholic literature; Catholic culture; apophaty; biblical allusions; Jan Cep's work
AB We approach "Catholic literature" from the point of view of language, as opposed to the motivic/thematic or ideological approaches. We argue that the language (rooted in the tradition of Catholic culture) used in fiction to describe the experience of the sacred has its unique characteristics: suggestiveness, silencing, apophaty, the meaningfulness and frequency of biblical allusions, through which it relates to the dominant text and the core of Catholic religion. The essay uses the examples from the works of Jan Cep.
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