Posibile influenţe ale scrierilor patristice asupra operei eminesciene. Alegorie şi alegoreză
Possible Influences of Patristic Writings on Eminescu’s Works. Allegory and Allegoresis

Summary/Abstract: One of the less discussed topics in literary exegesis has been the impact of patristic writings on Mihai Eminescu’s works. When such an influence has been however considered (by Rosa Del Conte, mostly), the exegetic interest has focused only on lexical elements or on a number of themes and motifs specific to patristic thought. A closer look upon the status and functions of the allegory (also allegory-reading, allegoresis) in Eminescu’s great poems would reveal some other patristic influences, such as those brought to light by Biblical hermeneutics, a field where, as it is well known, both allegory and allegoresis are deeply involved in the articulation of some particular conceptions regarding the levels of meaning of a text and the reading types associated to them. Our aim is to prove that the poet’s attraction to allegory and allegoresis does not stand for a modernistic temptation of a Post-Romantic type, but illustrates instead a form of loyalty towards the traditional-Christian reading and literary practice prevalent during the Middle Ages especially, and whose patristic roots have already been proved.

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