Literary transmission of epistemic aspects in Ebner- Eschenbach’s novel Das Gemeindekind

The article is dedicated to the epistemological interpretation of the novel Das Gemeindekind (1956) (The Child of the Parish) by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. The ethical-educational aspects of her work have contributed to the revelation of the literary transformation of human knowledge and experience. The analysis is focused on the cognitive aspects of narrativity, which are realized through authentication, literacy, and structure-related” strategies. The technique of narrative transforms the perceived to the sensual and literary corporeality of thinking. The truth, rationality and authenticity in relation to episteme and gnosis are primarily embodied by spatial and temporal constellations of action frameworks. Language diversity, oral reflection and graphical (orthographic) variations represent another authentication technique. Among the lateralization strategies, the epistemological reflections and their didactization, belongs the literary embodiment of epistemological semantics, such as collective thinking or memory, oral tradition, recognition and memory. The dominance of dialogical structures and the argumentative construction of the text or the argumentative notation function as a proof of epistemological text structure. Das Gemeindekind is one of the great examples to contribute to the research on German Moravian literature in the 19th century