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CNAA / Theses / 2021 / May /

The expression of evil in Romanian literature (Ion Creangă, Mircea Eliade, Vasile Vasilache, Savatie Baștovoi etc.)


Author: Ivanov Constantin
Degree:doctor of philology
Speciality: 10.01.01 - Romanian Literature
Year:2021
Scientific adviser: Andrei Ţurcanu
doctor habilitat, associate professor (docent), Institute of Philology
Institution:

Status

The thesis was presented on the 12 May, 2021
Approved by NCAA on the 30 July, 2021

Abstract

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Keywords

imaginary, literary imaginary, cultural imaginary, folkloric imaginary, literary image, archetype, demonic, evil, devil, evil expression, representation, mythological substratum, mythical, playful, transcendental, metaphysical, mystical, ontic, primordial, existential, ideological

Summary

The thesis consists of: introduction, three chapters, conclusions and general recommendations, more than 200 bibliographic sources, 135 pages with basic text, 4 annexes, of which one annex contains the full presentation of paragraph 1.4, declaration of assumption of responsibility, author's CV. The results of the thesis are reflected in 27 scientific articles, of which two published in Category A journals, respectively one indexed in the SCOPUS database and another in Emerging Sources Citation Index, Clarivate Analytics Products and Services (Web of Science).

Keywords: imaginary, literary imaginary, cultural imaginary, folkloric imaginary, literary image, archetype, demonic, evil, devil, evil expression, representation, mythological substratum, mythical, playful, transcendental, metaphysical, mystical, ontic, primordial, existential, ideological. Field of study: Romanian literature. The purpose of the research is to carry out an inter- and transdisciplinary study of the problem of evil in the Romanian imaginary literary in order to identify the defining representations, its images, motives and artistic meanings of depth and their way of correlation with the identity matrix of the cultural (national) imaginary. Research objectives: - Establishing the depth, philosophical, theological, historical and aesthetic landmarks of the imaginary evil; - Systematization of different rhetoric of literary approach to the problem of evil; - Examination of conceptual aspects and determination of the methodological framework in the thematic investigation; - Studying models of manifestation and representation of evil in Romanian mythology; - Researching the typologies of expression of evil in some representative literary productions; - Analysis of folkloric archetypal correspondences with those of Ion Creangă's stories; - Researching the meanings of the cursed spaces in Creangă's stories; - Investigation of playful representations of evil in Romanian fantasy narratives; - Interpretation of metaphysical evil and its literary reflections in Mircea Eliade's prose; - The realization of a literary hermeneutics of totalitarian ideological evil and the one with a tempt of post-human globalist dystopia. Scientific novelty and originality: The work imposes in the local space of literary research a critique of the depths that investigate the arsenal of mythic-cultural meanings of the image of evil from a transliterary, multidisciplinary perspective. Avoiding the unilateral, reducing approach to literary texts, this investigation comes with the optics of a multi-faceted treatment of a key existential issue/problem with theological, mythological, metaphysical, social, ethical and artistic implications. The scientific problem solved: Starting from the ways of approaching the issue of evil in Romanian cosmogonic mythology, passing through the interpretations of its archetypal forms and developments, as they are presented in the Creanga's work, insisting on the artistic perceptions of evil as distortion of the world and man, the work achieves a monographic research of the determinations, character, meanings and assets of manifestation of evil in Romanian literature, including that one from Bessarabia, of the role and correlations of this literary theme with other themes from the Romanian literary imaginary. The theoretical and applicative/ practical importance lies in the proposal of a mythic-archetypal grid of reading and analysis of literary creations, which also takes into account the perspective of a perspective of a defining philosophical matrix for the Romanian cultural context and its specific imaginary structures. Implementation of scientific results. The results of this research have been implemented in fundamental research projects within the Institute of Romanian Philology "B.P.-Hasdeu" and in the collective collection "Literature from the perspective of archetypology", Chisinau: Pro Libra Publishing House, 2019. The results of the research have been disseminated in more than 20 articles published in national and international journals; 4 plenary communications; in more than 30 national/international conferences and colloquia and in television shows.