Gabriel Badea, Mircea Eliade și caracterul ambivalent al modernismului literar
Mircea Eliade and the Ambivalent Character of Literary Modernism
This article aims to question more in-depth the picture of literary modernism, emphasizing its ambivalence, distinction operated in a relationship with Tradition, Myth, Ritual, Symbol, etc. Mircea Eliade noted since the interwar period this spiritual and antihistorical direction in literary modernism, and his ideas were confirmed by more recent studies, such as those due to Sorin Alexandrescu, Roger Griffin, Hayden White. In the second part of the article I
will pursue the cultural context which prepared and announced the emergence of ethical modernism (anthropology’s progress in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the rediscovery of myth and symbol as means of experience and knowledge).
Keywords: literary modernism, ethic/aesthetic, myth, tradition, forgetfulness, desacralization
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