Unde Malum? Dualist(oid) and Gnostic Imaginary, from Folk Mythology to Modern Romanian Literature Cover Image

Unde Malum? Dualist(oid) and Gnostic Imaginary, from Folk Mythology to Modern Romanian Literature
Unde Malum? Dualist(oid) and Gnostic Imaginary, from Folk Mythology to Modern Romanian Literature

Author(s): Nicoleta Popa Blanariu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: myth; Dualism; Gnosticism; Bogomilism; Eminescu; Macedonski; Arghezi; Blaga; Sadoveanu; Ion Barbu; Eliade; Cioran; Ionesco

Summary/Abstract: Our contribution attempts to respond to a gap in the investigation of the reminiscences of dualistic imaginary in modern literature and also in the Romanian reflection on the phenomenon. By approaching more thoroughly a theme that we have already discussed, from other perspectives, in our previous contributions, this article aims at identifying and analyzing, in the context of the history of mentality and the history of the imaginary, the persistence of certain dualist(oid) structures in the work of authors who are representative for Romanian classic and interwar literature, as well as for the postwar diaspora.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 3-20
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English