Przestrzeń mioritycka

Wprowadzenie

“The Mioritic Space” appeared in 1936 and was later included in Blaga’s “Trilogy of Culture” (1944). Its title comes from the ballad “Mioriţa”, in which a shepherd, warned by his ewe that he is to be murdered, accepts his death calmly and imagines it as a cosmic wedding. Blaga reads this and other forms of Romanian folk culture – songs, the wooden church, peasant ornament, an attitude toward fate – as expressions of an unconscious spatial horizon: an undulating plane of hill and valley, a rhythm of rising and falling. Together with other “abyssal” categories this horizon forms a “stylistic matrix” that shapes a culture without its bearers being aware of it. The book became one of the most cited texts on Romanian identity; critics read it as a poetic morphology of culture rather than an empirical theory and have warned against its nationalist use.

Więcej dzieł: Lucian Blaga

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