THE SYMBOLIC-MYTHICAL PURPOSE OF THE CREATION OF SENSE IN THE CONFIGURATION OF LUCIAN BLAGA'S POETIC ONTO-THEOPHANY Cover Image

FINALITATEA SIMBOLIC-MITICĂ A CREAȚIEI DE SENS ÎN CONFIGURAREA ONTO-TEOFANIEI POETICE BLAGIENE
THE SYMBOLIC-MYTHICAL PURPOSE OF THE CREATION OF SENSE IN THE CONFIGURATION OF LUCIAN BLAGA'S POETIC ONTO-THEOPHANY

Author(s): Mihai-Andrei Lazăr
Subject(s): Romanian Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: phenomenological plane; noumenal plane; epiphany; symbolic-mythical pattern; „revelatory” finality;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we seek to demonstrate how Lucian Blaga’s poetic universe is double layered, in the sense that one can distinguish between, on the one hand, a phenomenological plane, characterized by a pervasive sense of the inexorable passage of time and of human mortability and, on the other hand, a supramundane (noumenal) plane which, in a profane world, has become unattainable and therefore intensifies the individual’s sense of loneliness and estrangement from a sacred universe. We attempt to show how there two planes interfere, mainly through revelations of the divine (epiphanies). In our paper, we follow a poetic and stylistic approach, founded on Mircea Borcilă’s attempt to formulate a poetic typology aiming to highlight the intrinsec mechanisms of a poetic finality oriented towards the creation of meaning, therefore inscribing Blaga’s poetry on the coordinates of a symbolic-mythical pattern. The linguist’s theory draws on Blaga’s conception of the duality of metaphor (“plasticizantă” and “revelatorie”), the latter having a revelatory function and being subdivided by Borcilă according to a cultural finality into a “plastic” finality in creating poetic meaning, whose universe of reference will be modelled upon the phenomenological world, and a ’’revelatory” finality, whose universe of reference will be modelled upon a noumenal, transmundane world.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2021
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 23-33
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian