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- Title
IMAGINARY ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN ORIGIN AS REFLECTED IN THE SOCIALIST REALISTIC DRAMA.
- Authors
ŞTEFĂNUŢ, ALIN SERAFIM
- Abstract
This paper aims to highlight the manner in which communist ideology and mythology superimpose over specific symbols of the Christian imaginary by replacing them with its prefabricated system of reading and comprehending literary worlds. As secular religions, dictatorial regimes directly compete with divinity aspiring to dethrone and substitute it in an effort of re-writing history with its humanitarian pretenses. Immediately after its inauguration in Romania, communism intended to create, by using all necessary mean, a literary corpus of itself which would disseminate a coherent message with the supreme promise that it was to bring about heaven on earth. Their propaganda was formulated and conducted via literature and art as well, in the attempt to make this message intelligible and accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Drama was thus one of communism's favorite channels to impart its ideology to the masses, in the hope that the new plays would bestow the regime a human face.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; SOCIALISM; DRAMA; COMMUNISM; ORAL interpretation; MYTHOLOGY
- Publication
Caesura: Journal of Philological & Humanistic Studies, 2019, p73
- ISSN
2360-3372
- Publication type
Article