Witold Sadowski, “A Generic Worldview. The Case of the Chrotonope of Litany,” in: Literarische Form: Theorien – Dynamiken – Kulturen. Beiträge zur literarischen Modellforschung, ed. by Robert Matthias Erdbeer, Florian Kläger, Klaus Stierstorfer (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018).
Literary genres involve not only semantic potential, but they also presuppose a specific worldview. In order to really recognize the genre in a literary work, that is to comprehend a poem in line with the semantic scope of the genre, one needs to interpret the text within the worldview in which the genre exists. In this paper, this is be exemplified through litany.