De la eroi la „supereroi” în basmele româneşti
From héroes to “super-heroes” in the Romanian Fairy-tales

Summary/Abstract: Our study starts from two big themes of the contemporary culture: national vs. globalization and the danger of becoming homo videns, applied to the world of Romanian fairytales. Using theoretical approaches and theories by Lucian Boia and Giovanni Sartori, we applied first a questionnaire to students studying Romanian fairytales as literary genre and assumed to be familiar with national fairytales due to their age. Our questionnaire intended to depict a classification of literary characters based on the read text and TV images, speculating a new concept – superheroes. Starting from the conclusion of our questionnaire, we further identified contemporary tendencies of reviving national fairytales literature and the way that Romanian national mythology may pass from text to contemporary imagination based on visual elements or the more complicated reverse process, passing from visual elements to literary text as an intention to keep the elements of homo sapiens alive in the era of homo videns. This is the point where we studied the Romanian superheroes, a concept developed positive or negative. Our study refers especially to the positive exploit of the concept by a Romanian ONG, called Asociaţia pentru Promovarea Istoriei României.

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