The symbolism of the Snake and the Fantastic Prose of Mircea Eliade

Authors

  • Adrian Mustatea Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Keywords:

snake, symbolistic, Eliade, archetype

Abstract

The snake has a very rich symbolic meaning in world’s culture, illustrated in literature and art in general; Mircea Eliade’s prose uses this motive in order to illustrate old Romanian myths and to recreate the archaic time of the myth.

Published

2008-06-11

Issue

Vol. 14(49) (2007)

Section

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES