The language of transcendent experience in literary-phenomenological interpretation

This piece introduces the theme of the experience of the transcendent in a dialogue of literary science and phenomenology. It focuses on language as an instrument of the literary representation of this sui generis experience, as well as those movements of the interior which appear vaguely at first sight, although they can be interpreted as an echo of the presence of unnamed but authentically perceived transcendence. The research is inspired by the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion. Reflecting the mystical theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, Marion formulated the original concept of so-called saturated phenomena, and his phenomenology has also influenced further literary-theoretical reflection. One example is Cassandra Falke's book The Phenomenology of Love and Reading, which applies Marion's phenomenology to the reading of literary texts in an original way.