Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak is Assistant Professor at the Opole University of Technology, Poland.Paula García-Ramírez is Associate Professor at the University of Jaén, Spain.

The wealth and variety of themes and approaches to hermeneutical narratives in literature, the visual arts and communicative activities are impressive. Nineteen scholars engage in hermeneutic encounters with self-knowledge, Paul Ricœur, the mundane aspects of experience and more. An enlightening example of interdisciplinary research.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPreface, Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland) and Paula García-Ramírez (University of Jaén, Spain)AcknowledgementsPart I: Noematic Lacunae in Artistic Discourse1. Hermeneutical Guidelines for Understanding the Self through Art, David Jaeger and Evan Underbrink (Boston College, USA)2. Hieratic Communication in the Oeuvre of Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, and Nikolai Roerich, Sally Stocksdale (Towson University, USA)3. Painterly Motif of Kisses of Mary and Kisses of St Joseph in the Context of Iconography of Unio Mystica in the Baroque Period, Andrzej Koziel (Wroclaw University, Poland)4. Narrativity, Discourse Situation and the Opening of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, Marta Falces Sierra (University of Granada, Spain)Part II: Hermeneutic Diaphaneity in Literary Studies5. Adinkra Symbols: From Visual Art Messages for the Deceased to A Literary Research Methodology, Violeta Jojo Verge (University of La Laguna, Spain)6. Hermeneutical Narratives of the European Colonization in Africa in Graham Greene’s A Burnt-out Case and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion, Beatriz Valverde Jiménez (University of Jaén, Spain)7. The Language of War in the Apocalypse Trope of Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Almudena Machado Jiménez (University of Jaén, Spain)8. Prophesizing War in The Lament of the Deer by Christopher Okigbo, Paula Garcia-Ramirez (University of Jaén, Spain)Part III: Epistemic Spaces in the Geopsychic Universe of Visual and Verbal Communication9. Local Amazigh Proverbs in Motion, Fatima Ez-zahra Benkhallouq and Wahiba Moubhir (University of Marrakesh, Morocco)10. Thirdspace Creation as a Geopsychic Dialogue with Tourists in Karpacz Holiday Resort (Poland),Joanna Lubos-Koziel (Wroclaw University, Poland) and Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland)11. Creating Common Epistemic Spaces through Multimodal Stancetaking Practices, Valentyna Ushchyna Lesya (Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk, Ukraine)12. Elaborating a Heuristic Tool to Determine Fluency Spectrum for Deaf Pupils in Poland, Marta Wrzesniewska-Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)13. The Concept of Wenming (Civility) as an Edusemiotic Strategy, Katarzyna Mazur-Wlodarczyk, Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak, Joanna Kolanska-Pluska, Elzbieta Karas and Przemyslaw Misiurski (Opole University of Technology, Poland) Index

Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak is Assistant Professor at the Opole University of Technology, Poland.Paula García-Ramírez is Associate Professor at the University of Jaén, Spain.

The wealth and variety of themes and approaches to hermeneutical narratives in literature, the visual arts and communicative activities are impressive. Nineteen scholars engage in hermeneutic encounters with self-knowledge, Paul Ricœur, the mundane aspects of experience and more. An enlightening example of interdisciplinary research.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPreface, Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland) and Paula García-Ramírez (University of Jaén, Spain)AcknowledgementsPart I: Noematic Lacunae in Artistic Discourse1. Hermeneutical Guidelines for Understanding the Self through Art, David Jaeger and Evan Underbrink (Boston College, USA)2. Hieratic Communication in the Oeuvre of Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, and Nikolai Roerich, Sally Stocksdale (Towson University, USA)3. Painterly Motif of Kisses of Mary and Kisses of St Joseph in the Context of Iconography of Unio Mystica in the Baroque Period, Andrzej Koziel (Wroclaw University, Poland)4. Narrativity, Discourse Situation and the Opening of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, Marta Falces Sierra (University of Granada, Spain)Part II: Hermeneutic Diaphaneity in Literary Studies5. Adinkra Symbols: From Visual Art Messages for the Deceased to A Literary Research Methodology, Violeta Jojo Verge (University of La Laguna, Spain)6. Hermeneutical Narratives of the European Colonization in Africa in Graham Greene’s A Burnt-out Case and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion, Beatriz Valverde Jiménez (University of Jaén, Spain)7. The Language of War in the Apocalypse Trope of Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Almudena Machado Jiménez (University of Jaén, Spain)8. Prophesizing War in The Lament of the Deer by Christopher Okigbo, Paula Garcia-Ramirez (University of Jaén, Spain)Part III: Epistemic Spaces in the Geopsychic Universe of Visual and Verbal Communication9. Local Amazigh Proverbs in Motion, Fatima Ez-zahra Benkhallouq and Wahiba Moubhir (University of Marrakesh, Morocco)10. Thirdspace Creation as a Geopsychic Dialogue with Tourists in Karpacz Holiday Resort (Poland),Joanna Lubos-Koziel (Wroclaw University, Poland) and Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland)11. Creating Common Epistemic Spaces through Multimodal Stancetaking Practices, Valentyna Ushchyna Lesya (Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk, Ukraine)12. Elaborating a Heuristic Tool to Determine Fluency Spectrum for Deaf Pupils in Poland, Marta Wrzesniewska-Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)13. The Concept of Wenming (Civility) as an Edusemiotic Strategy, Katarzyna Mazur-Wlodarczyk, Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak, Joanna Kolanska-Pluska, Elzbieta Karas and Przemyslaw Misiurski (Opole University of Technology, Poland) Index

Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak is Assistant Professor at the Opole University of Technology, Poland.Paula García-Ramírez is Associate Professor at the University of Jaén, Spain.

The wealth and variety of themes and approaches to hermeneutical narratives in literature, the visual arts and communicative activities are impressive. Nineteen scholars engage in hermeneutic encounters with self-knowledge, Paul Ricœur, the mundane aspects of experience and more. An enlightening example of interdisciplinary research.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPreface, Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland) and Paula García-Ramírez (University of Jaén, Spain)AcknowledgementsPart I: Noematic Lacunae in Artistic Discourse1. Hermeneutical Guidelines for Understanding the Self through Art, David Jaeger and Evan Underbrink (Boston College, USA)2. Hieratic Communication in the Oeuvre of Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, and Nikolai Roerich, Sally Stocksdale (Towson University, USA)3. Painterly Motif of Kisses of Mary and Kisses of St Joseph in the Context of Iconography of Unio Mystica in the Baroque Period, Andrzej Koziel (Wroclaw University, Poland)4. Narrativity, Discourse Situation and the Opening of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, Marta Falces Sierra (University of Granada, Spain)Part II: Hermeneutic Diaphaneity in Literary Studies5. Adinkra Symbols: From Visual Art Messages for the Deceased to A Literary Research Methodology, Violeta Jojo Verge (University of La Laguna, Spain)6. Hermeneutical Narratives of the European Colonization in Africa in Graham Greene’s A Burnt-out Case and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion, Beatriz Valverde Jiménez (University of Jaén, Spain)7. The Language of War in the Apocalypse Trope of Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Almudena Machado Jiménez (University of Jaén, Spain)8. Prophesizing War in The Lament of the Deer by Christopher Okigbo, Paula Garcia-Ramirez (University of Jaén, Spain)Part III: Epistemic Spaces in the Geopsychic Universe of Visual and Verbal Communication9. Local Amazigh Proverbs in Motion, Fatima Ez-zahra Benkhallouq and Wahiba Moubhir (University of Marrakesh, Morocco)10. Thirdspace Creation as a Geopsychic Dialogue with Tourists in Karpacz Holiday Resort (Poland),Joanna Lubos-Koziel (Wroclaw University, Poland) and Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak (Opole University of Technology, Poland)11. Creating Common Epistemic Spaces through Multimodal Stancetaking Practices, Valentyna Ushchyna Lesya (Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk, Ukraine)12. Elaborating a Heuristic Tool to Determine Fluency Spectrum for Deaf Pupils in Poland, Marta Wrzesniewska-Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)13. The Concept of Wenming (Civility) as an Edusemiotic Strategy, Katarzyna Mazur-Wlodarczyk, Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak, Joanna Kolanska-Pluska, Elzbieta Karas and Przemyslaw Misiurski (Opole University of Technology, Poland) Index