THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL BACKGROUND OF USING HERMENEUTIC METHODOLOGY TO UNDERSTANDING LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

The article examines hermeneutics in the process of its formation and development, presents the main approaches to the use of hermeneutic methodology to understand the literary text. The author focuses on the issue of objectivity of the meaning and subjectivity of the author’s intention in the literary interpretation; reveals problems that the translator encounters when conveying the meaning of the literary text. The concepts of text, language, style, discourse, understanding and context are concretized within the framework of hermeneutic methodology. The author comes to the conclusion that the hermeneutic methodology makes it possible to correctly interpret a literary text thanks to the principles on which it is based, such as dialogueness and reflection.