Thesis In the Light of Kabbalah: Jewish Mystique in Polish Literature in the Interwar Period deals with different models of reflection of Jewish religious and mystical tradition in the Polish interwar literature (on the example of three authors representing different ways of perceiving their own Jewish roots as well as the processing of themes based on the tradition of Jewish mysticism). Aleksander Wat, originally a futurist, was critical of the Jewish religious tradition - but still cannot his own "Jewishness" escape; prose writer Bruno Schulz offers an unique vision of cosmogony and eschatology reminiscent of - besides other things - selected concepts of Kabbalah; Bolesław Leśmianʼs relationship to this tradition is the looses, but on the other hand his method of working with motives which can interpreted in the context of the Jewish religious tradition is very original. Literary work of all three - as the heirs to the "people of the Book" - is marked by a specific relationship to language and the written word. In addition to this theme we deal with e.g. the Golem motive, the idea of the creation of the world or the idea of God. These analytical chapters are preceded by a theoretical and methodological introduction based on the traditions of literary hermeneutics, but also on selected concepts of...

Dans ce mémoire, nous explorons les possibilités d’une herméneutique algorithmique littéraire en faisant d’abord des parallèles entre la lecture humaine et la modélisation textuelle numérique. À partir des caractéristiques de ces deux formes de rapports au texte littéraire, nous différencions les modèles littéraires nés de la cognition et de la computation, en plus de rester critique des formes représentatives ainsi générées. Nous utilisons ensuite les cadres théoriques de la sémiotique et de la cybersémiotique pour placer l’interprétation humaine et computationnelle sur un même continuum d’évolution biotechnologique. Ainsi, nous envisageons la possibilité de sens littéraire numérique à partir de méthodes d’exploration de données appliquées aux modèles littéraires algorithmiques. Finalement, nous considérons les potentielles conséquences, limites et avantages d’une pratique de l’herméneutique algorithmique, et la forme qu’une telle pratique pourrait prendre. / In this master thesis, we explore the possibilities of digital criticism, first by creating parallels between human reading and computational text modelling. From the characteristics of both these approaches to literary work, we differentiate literary models born of cognition and computation, and stay critical of these representative forms. We then use literary semiotics and cybersemiotics as theoretical frameworks to set human and computer interpretations as two steps on the same biotechnological evolutionary ladder. Thus, we consider the possibility of digital literary meaning produced with advanced data mining tools applied to algorithmically generated literary models. Finally, we contemplate what consequences, limits and advantages such a digital hermeneutic practice would have and offer, and the shapes it may or may not take.

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