Abstract
Introduction. The work examines the main vector of development of contemporary literary and hermeneutics studies. The main aim is to show how the view of the text has changed and what are the important tools in the process of its interpretation.Methodology and sources. Firstly, various philosophical and literary approaches to texts are considered. One of the main ideas behind the research method is the comparison of the modernist, post-modernist and meta-modernist paradigm in the process of text interpretation. Another important aspect is the consideration of symptomatic and surface reading, as an important tool in the discussion of whether the text bears any meaning apart from the directly deducable and what is the most contemporary if not the best way of interpreting it. Most texts analyzed are literary examples, mainly taken from Anglophone literature.Results and discussion. The results of the research state a number of tendencies in the view of contemporary hermeneutics. Among the general conclusion of the shift from modernist to post-modern and meta-modern patterns in the narrative. Regarding the process of text interpretation what is stated is a general tendency to see the surface l evel of the text as bearing all the necessary and important meanings. The older and more conservative approach of bringing meaning into the text is also at work, depending on the traditions. Elimination of text interpretation (or denying it its original im portance) is also an important point of view, as it states that a literary text explains more than any supporting attempt of its explanation. Another important feature is a tendency of a modern literary text to adopt characteristics of poetry. The psychoanalytic view is competing with post-modernist or meta-modernist view.Conclusion. Metamodernist tendency, surface reading and attention to the literary text itself, and not its further explanation seems to be the core of a contemporary view of literary texts, their interpretation and, hense, meaning.
Highlights
The work examines the main vector of development of contemporary literary and hermeneutics studies
The article attempts to describe the main tendencies observed in the development of contemporary narrative paradigm, which takes place along the main patterns seen in literary criticism development as well
Metamodernism is the general contemporary aesthetic paradigm that could be applied to the analysis of literary texts as well as general art and cultural patterns development
Summary
The article attempts to describe the main tendencies observed in the development of contemporary narrative paradigm, which takes place along the main patterns seen in literary criticism development as well. A most vivid example of a contemporary most famous critical article on hermeneutics has been published under the title Surface Reading [7] It numerates different possibilities in approaching the text, stating that the text itself provides enormous scope for information, and it is not necessary at all to bring meaning into it, as it reveals enormous depths just by offering the content. Fanon and Boehmer talk about three stages of post-colonial writing development In line with this understanding of Franz Fanon’s views, Boehmer considers a three-level scheme of anti-colonial struggle: 1) colonial assimilation; 2) the “violation” phase that includes “the restoration of the author’s identity through the restoration of cultural traditions” and 3) “struggle” – “the thinking author, the original resident of the colony”, who begins an active struggle for the restoration of freedom, the assertion of his political role, the opposition to colonial aggression [12, p. Women’s writing as well as postcolonial writing, specific attention to cultural details will become a focus of attention
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