Mitologie şi onirism în poemul eminescian Egipetul de Mihai Eminescu
Mythology and Oneirism in Egipetul, by Mihai Eminescu

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to penetrate the superficial layers of Eminescu’s Egipetul through the analysis of the mirror myth and through the revelation of the poetic structures inviting its recurrence under new frames. Our inventory of mirror metamorphoses and their meanings enabled us to demonstrate the idea that these avatars are originally subordinated to the diurnal the moment when they prove their incapacity to transcend the empirical; they also become subordinated to the nocturnal when, fraught with magic, a mirror becomes a gate towards the oneiric and manages to establish the coordinates of an Egyptian world, just like a collective soul in a dreamy universe that communicates with the present.

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