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Shakespeare şi Cervantes între imaginar, real şi un arhetip – Imago Christi
Shakespeare and Cervantes, Between Imaginary, Real, and an “Imago Christi” Archetype

Author(s): Calin Birleanu
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: catharsis; reality; archetype; imago Dei;

Summary/Abstract: The cultural evolution of the literary phenomenon went through a few steps that should be related to the way in which social structures were transformed, from totem to religious extremism and then to the illusion of freedom. Yet, in all historical periods, there has been a constant need of an artwork to raise the individual to a different level of experience, named by Aristotle, catharsis. The principle of moralizing art has become, in time, somewhat outdated and increasingly inappropriate to a type of an apparently specialised consumer, but actually, superficial and with less time for receiving a complex message.

  • Issue Year: XXVII/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 93-98
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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