Research Article

Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande

Volume: 31 Number: 2 December 6, 2021
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Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande

Abstract

The post structural paradigm of research in the human sciences allows us to consider the structure and semantics of literary texts from an approach open to other semiotic systems. It is well known that the mythological substratum plays an important role in the formation of literary conceptualization. The intertextual analysis offers the opportunity of considering the text as an object of dynamic study, taking into consideration the diachronic principle. In contemporary studies, analysis of the mythological intertext is generally limited to the inventory of structures with a mythical connotation without revealing their historical semantics. But, through the diachronic reconstruction of the Greco-Roman image of the world over several periods of mythopoeic proto conceptualization we can discover the structures and the semantic potential of the mythological intertext. After that, we proceed to the mythopoeic intertextual analysis of Pelléas and Mélisande, the most famous drama written by Maurice Maeterlinck, a Nobel Prize winner. We discover that a wide system of mythemes, archaic binary oppositions and mythical complexes take part in the formation of semantic and structural isotopies generating the peculiarities of the image of the world in the hypertext. This conceptualization breaks with the ideas of the aesthetic platform of tragic optimism developed by Maeterlinck through the neutralization of the Hades mythical complex by the signs of solar symbolism which implies a constant renewal of the human soul in the cosmic cycle of nature.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Creative Arts and Writing

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 6, 2021

Submission Date

January 31, 2021

Acceptance Date

July 27, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 31 Number: 2

APA
Chystiak, D., Kobchinska, O., & Mosenkis, I. (2021). Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 31(2), 605-618. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2021-871443
AMA
1.Chystiak D, Kobchinska O, Mosenkis I. Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande. Litera. 2021;31(2):605-618. doi:10.26650/LITERA2021-871443
Chicago
Chystiak, Dmytro, Olena Kobchinska, and Iurii Mosenkis. 2021. “Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 31 (2): 605-18. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2021-871443.
EndNote
Chystiak D, Kobchinska O, Mosenkis I (December 1, 2021) Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 31 2 605–618.
IEEE
[1]D. Chystiak, O. Kobchinska, and I. Mosenkis, “Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande”, Litera, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 605–618, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.26650/LITERA2021-871443.
ISNAD
Chystiak, Dmytro - Kobchinska, Olena - Mosenkis, Iurii. “Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 31/2 (December 1, 2021): 605-618. https://doi.org/10.26650/LITERA2021-871443.
JAMA
1.Chystiak D, Kobchinska O, Mosenkis I. Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande. Litera. 2021;31:605–618.
MLA
Chystiak, Dmytro, et al. “Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, Dec. 2021, pp. 605-18, doi:10.26650/LITERA2021-871443.
Vancouver
1.Dmytro Chystiak, Olena Kobchinska, Iurii Mosenkis. Mythological Intertext in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande. Litera. 2021 Dec. 1;31(2):605-18. doi:10.26650/LITERA2021-871443