THE ODYSSEY OF M. ELIADE'S HEROES. A MEDITATION ON TIME.
The present research focuses mainly on highlighting and analyzing the spacetime dimension in Mircea Eliade's works of fiction. The paper also presents the considerations made by the author on this topic in his scientific papers. The detailing of the concepts related to the myth highlights the presen...
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=154090676&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 154090676 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 15830039 1CSK jtl: Journal for the Study of Religions & Ideologies issn: 15830039 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Winter2021 vid: 20 iid: 60 pid: 24535 pub: S.A.C.R.I. The Academic Society for the Research of Religions & Ideologies artinfo: ui: 154090676 ppf: 62 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.7MB tig: atl: THE ODYSSEY OF M. ELIADE'S HEROES. A MEDITATION ON TIME. aug: au: Abrudan, Elena affil: Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Political Science, Administrative and Communication Science, Department of Journalism and Digital Media, Cluj, Romania su: Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986 Fiction Modern literature Mythology Myth sug: subj: Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986 Fiction Modern literature Mythology Myth keyword: contemporary fiction initiation modern hero myth mythology profane sacred space-time dimension ab: The present research focuses mainly on highlighting and analyzing the spacetime dimension in Mircea Eliade's works of fiction. The paper also presents the considerations made by the author on this topic in his scientific papers. The detailing of the concepts related to the myth highlights the presence in contemporary prose of cosmogony, eschatology, and calendar myths. We show that the two temporal subsystems, cosmogony and eschatology, blend harmoniously with two spatial subsystems, the vertical and the horizontal, to demonstrate that temporal symbolism exists only in terms of spatial symbolism. The demonstration of the mythical character of the space-time structure is based on the revelation of the sacredness of the mythical space and time and on the sacred-profane opposition, inside this dimension of contemporary prose. The paper highlights aspects that demonstrate that the use of mythical structures and their understanding are different in contemporary prose culminating in changing their meaning, with the transition to postmodernism. This passage is marked by the change of the symbolic code with the naturalistic one, the postmodern writers using the same mythical motives and structures as the modern ones but giving them a different meaning. The research reveals a certain parallelism between the scientific works and Mircea Eliade's prose, by illustrating the concepts related to time and space, and by depicting in his short stories and novels the sacred camouflaged in history and the heroes' attempt to find a privileged space in order to succeed in coming out of profane time. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal for the Study of Religions & Ideologies is the property of S.A.C.R.I. The Academic Society for the Research of Religions & Ideologies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal for the Study of Religions & Ideologies holder: S.A.C.R.I. The Academic Society for the Research of Religions & Ideologies dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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