Literature of Global Vocation: The Initiating Narrative with Eliade  Cover Image

Une littérature à vocation globale: le récit initiatique d'Eliade
Literature of Global Vocation: The Initiating Narrative with Eliade

Author(s): Lăcrămioara Berechet
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: sacred; postmodernism; Gnostic scenarios; initiating structure; literary perspective.

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to outline the global scope of Mircea Eliade’s shorter prose from the point of view of the sacred, with the aesthetic ciphering of Gnostic scenarios retracing the initiating structures. From a postmodern point of view the symbolic thinking actuated in the text is decoded from an aesthetic, ethnologic, linguistic, anthropological and religious perspective, proving that literary and scientific imagination can complement each other

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 23-38
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French