Mot ett bredare arketextualitetsbegrepp: den augustinsk-lutherska diskurstypen i Birgitta Trotzigs Dykungens dotter

This article has three aims, all of them related to the theory and practice intertextuality. Firstly, makes an attempt reconstruct Augustinian-Lutheran type discourse. A number modern theologians historians philosophy have observed that main currents within Christian theology their basis in a specific discourse organization textual utterances. With reference these observations, maps out some dominant features Augustine’s Luther’s discoursive practices. The thus reconstructed contains grammatical, logical-argumentative, narrative rhetoric-figurative characteristics, – as matter fact it manifests high degree applicability field literary studies. Secondly, applies analyze masterpiece Swedish twentieth-century literature, novel Dykungens dotter (The Marsh King’s Daughter, 1985) by Birgitta Trotzig (1929–2013). In several interviews, evidently contradictory remarks on Augustine Luther. She dissociates herself from anthropology at same time she hints view human conditions made deep impression her. article’s application intends throw light this precarious hermeneutic situation. intense presence apparent through indicates interpretation Trotzig’s writings means intertexts is hermeneutically motivated spite her own negative declarations. Thirdly, use order examin Gérard Genette’s notion architextuality. There theoretical incongruence his notion. On explicit definitory level, architextuality includes types modes enunciation. conteptual however, constructed pattern genres. demonstrates requires corrections live up its commitments. architext comes into conflict with linguisticly construed structuralistic categories demands more way thinking.