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The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory
A Comparative Exploration
Series: - Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 106
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This edited volume provides a comparative exploration of corresponding concepts of the abyss in various languages and cultures. Fourteen chapters investigate ancient cultures such as Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse, but also more contemporary American, African and Asian languages, such as Hawaiian, Umbundu, Chinese and Khasi, as well as European languages, such as German, Estonian, English, French, Polish and Russian. The book combines ethnolinguistics with history of ideas, literature, folklore, religion and translation, based on the conviction that language and our linguistic concepts give evidence of and shape our ideas about the world and about ourselves.
Professor Marko PajeviÄ held positions in leading Universities in France, the UK, Germany and Estonia. He publishes widely on poetics, literature, translation and cultural theory, and developed a poetological anthropology, recently in English: Poetic Thinking. Now (Routledge 2023).
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory, and German Abgrund: The Ambivalence of the Human
âMarko PajeviÄ
1 Praising Godâs Creation in the Abyss: tÇhÅm in Biblical and Apocalyptic Literature
âUrmas Nõmmik
2 The Origins of the á¼ÎÏ ÏÏÎ¿Ï in Greek
âJanika Päll
3 The Birth of the Abyss in the Rigveda
âSven Sellmer
4 Before the Creation in Old Norse MythologyâEmpty Abyss or Crowded Place
âDaniel Sävborg
5 HÄnau ka PÅ: The Abyss in Hawaiian Thought
âMichael David Kaulana Ing
6 The Void Against Transparency: Translating the Abyss into Umbundu
âIracema Dulley
7 Abyss, Chaos, and Emptiness. A Journey to the Depths of the Chinese Intellectual Tradition
âLisa Indraccolo
8 The Abyss in the Indigenous Khasi Worldview: The Search for Traditional Models
âMargaret Lyngdoh and Laur Järv
9 Journey to the North: The Experience of the Abyss in Mythology and Philosophy
âJaanus Sooväli and Hasso Krull
10 An Exploration of the Meaning and Usage of Abyss in English
âVioleta StojiciÄ
11 In Search of Abyssos in Contemporary French Through Lexical Pathways
âArkadiusz Koselak-Marechal
12 The Abyss in Polish
âAdam GÅaz
13 The Doubling of Bezdna: Notes on the Russian Poetic Concept of Abyss
âRoman Leibov
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory, and German Abgrund: The Ambivalence of the Human
âMarko PajeviÄ
Part 1 Ancient Cultures
1 Praising Godâs Creation in the Abyss: tÇhÅm in Biblical and Apocalyptic Literature
âUrmas Nõmmik
2 The Origins of the á¼ÎÏ ÏÏÎ¿Ï in Greek
âJanika Päll
3 The Birth of the Abyss in the Rigveda
âSven Sellmer
4 Before the Creation in Old Norse MythologyâEmpty Abyss or Crowded Place
âDaniel Sävborg
Part 2 American, African and Asian Cultures
5 HÄnau ka PÅ: The Abyss in Hawaiian Thought
âMichael David Kaulana Ing
6 The Void Against Transparency: Translating the Abyss into Umbundu
âIracema Dulley
7 Abyss, Chaos, and Emptiness. A Journey to the Depths of the Chinese Intellectual Tradition
âLisa Indraccolo
8 The Abyss in the Indigenous Khasi Worldview: The Search for Traditional Models
âMargaret Lyngdoh and Laur Järv
Part 3 European Cultures
9 Journey to the North: The Experience of the Abyss in Mythology and Philosophy
âJaanus Sooväli and Hasso Krull
10 An Exploration of the Meaning and Usage of Abyss in English
âVioleta StojiciÄ
11 In Search of Abyssos in Contemporary French Through Lexical Pathways
âArkadiusz Koselak-Marechal
12 The Abyss in Polish
âAdam GÅaz
13 The Doubling of Bezdna: Notes on the Russian Poetic Concept of Abyss
âRoman Leibov
This volume will be of interest to scholars working at the crossroads of humanities and the social sciences. It concerns comparative literature, English and modern languages departments, cultural theory, philosophy, but also discourse and media studies, arts, psychology and sociology.