Pour une rhétorique de l’imaginaire
For a Rhetoric of Imagination

Summary/Abstract: In this essay we explore an aspect of hermeneutics situated at the intersection of the Imaginary and of deep rhetoric and that make up what Gilbert Durand calls the “Transcendental Fantastic”. We thus hope to sketch out a prolegomenon to an approach capable of illuminating in depth the creation of imaginary worlds, whether these belong to the realms of the Fantastic or of Fantasy. In the first part we take into consideration the kind of metaphor proposed by Lucian Blaga and by Bachelard, as well as the role of the image, in the Transcendental Fantastic. In the second part we analyse an extract drawn from the poetry of Lucian Blaga. In the third part we examine specific components of a “transcendental fantastic”.

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