The article defines the basic principles of the influence of biblical hermeneutics on the poetics of Ukrainian Baroque emblematic literature, which were determined by its general development trends. The four-sense biblical hermeneutics, founded by the Greek and Roman Church Fathers, played an important role in the formation of Ukrainian Baroque literature that mainly developed within the theological framework. The principles of biblical hermeneutics eventually began to go beyond the theological literature. Thus, the medieval interest in symbol and allegory led to the appearance of “empresas” – symbolic drawings that became fashionable at the royal courts of Europe in the 15th century. The Renaissance misunderstanding about the nature of Egyptian hieroglyphs, their perception as ideographic writing through which Egyptian priests expressed their wisdom, led to the appearance of emblems, allegorical prints with long explanatory verses, aimed at giving some moral lessons. It was believed that the emblem could communicate truth to the mind more directly than with the help of words. It was reflected in the mind, while the person’s gaze wandered through the symbolic details of the emblem. The research provides evidence that a large number of literary works of the 17th century showed the influence of the emblem on the formation of symbolic representation, arranged to reveal the truth implicitly or explicitly through the sequential placement of the elements. Many poetic images of the 17th century come from well-known emblems, which were means of perceiving, interpreting, and opening the world of the Bible to the Baroque reader.
The study outlines general principles of biblical hermeneutics influence on the poetics of Ukrainian baroque prose. The Bible perceived by ancient writers as a collection of sacred books written by the Holy Spirit through the mediation of hagiographers is full of metaphors, comparisons, allegories and parables that needed clarification. Biblical hermeneutics developed rules for the Bible exegesis in order to avoid false variants of interpreting the Scripture. The four-sense method of biblical hermeneutics borrowed from Western Catholic tradition helped to avoid controversial interpretation of the Holy Scripture. The immersion of Ukrainian baroque literature into the biblical domain caused its paraphrasing nature and created conditions for the development of the four-sense hermeneutics as the structure of the poetics of Ukrainian baroque prose. Principles of biblical hermeneutics, having become a monolithic core of the form and content of authors’ texts, eventually began to go beyond the actual theological literature into the field of secular arts.
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