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Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature

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  • Marius-Virgil Florea *
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Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature

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This article proposes a rereading of Mircea Eliade’s fantastic literature through the framework of embodied cognition. Existing approaches—symbolic-allegorical decoding or classical narratological analysis—fail to account for a defining structural feature: the dissociation between a character’s conscious intentionality and their participation in the supernatural phenomenon. Tracing the evolution of Eliade’s fantastic across its major stages—from the “magic” period, where sorcerer-type characters deliberately summon the supernatural, to the second stage, where naïve protagonists are passively drawn into hierophanic encounters—this study demonstrates an inverse relationship: as conscious agency diminishes, embodied participation deepens. Through close readings of Dumitru in A Fourteen-Year-Old Photograph, Iancu Gore in Twelve Thousand Head of Cattle, and Gavrilescu in At the Gypsy Girls, the analysis reveals how Eliade’s characters become integrated into the very phenomenon they cannot consciously comprehend. The embodied framework clarifies the internal logic of the stories while establishing a coherent bridge between Eliade the phenomenologist and Eliade the fiction writer. Ultimately, the study argues that Eliade’s literary imagination gains depth when analyzed through the embodied framework.

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This study was conducted without any financial support.

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In this study, artificial intelligence-supported tools were used to a limited extent within the acceptable boundaries defined in Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies’ Artificial Intelligence Use Policy; all content has been reviewed and approved in its final form by the author(s).

Kaynakça

  1. Alexandrescu, Sorin. “Dialectica fantasticului” [“The Dialectic of the Fantastic”]. Introduction to La țigănci și alte povestiri [At the Gypsies and Other Stories], by Mircea Eliade. Editura pentru Literatură, 1969.
  2. Brooke-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  3. Călinescu, Iudit. “Fantastic and Mythical in the Short Story La Țigănci, by Mircea Eliade.” Journal of Romanian Literary Studies, no. 31 (2022): 234–44.
  4. Caracciolo, Marco, and Karin Kukkonen. With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition. Ohio State University Press, 2021.
  5. Culianu, Ioan Petru. Mircea Eliade. Nemira, 1995.
  6. Culianu, Ioan Petru. Studii românești I. Fantasmele nihilismului. Secretul doctorului Eliade [Romanian Studies I. The Phantasms of Nihilism. Doctor Eliade’s Secret]. Polirom, 2006.
  7. Eliade, Mircea. Jurnal [Journal]. Humanitas, 1997.
  8. Eliade, Mircea. Patterns in Comparative Religion. Translated by Rosemary Sheed. University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

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Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer), Edebi Teori, Karşılaştırmalı ve Ulusötesi Edebiyat, Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)

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Yazarlar

Marius-Virgil Florea * Bu kişi benim
0009-0000-4550-5270
China

Yayımlanma Tarihi

28 Ekim 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

23 Temmuz 2026

Kabul Tarihi

28 Eylül 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Sayı: 11

Kaynak Göster

APA
Florea, M.-V. (2026). Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature. Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 11, 221-237. https://doi.org/10.64957/nesir.2066194
AMA
1.Florea MV. Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature. Nesir. 2026;(11):221-237. doi:10.64957/nesir.2066194
Chicago
Florea, Marius-Virgil. 2026. “Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature”. Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, sy 11: 221-37. https://doi.org/10.64957/nesir.2066194.
EndNote
Florea M-V (01 Ekim 2026) Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature. Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 11 221–237.
IEEE
[1]M.-V. Florea, “Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature”, Nesir, sy 11, ss. 221–237, Eki. 2026, doi: 10.64957/nesir.2066194.
ISNAD
Florea, Marius-Virgil. “Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature”. Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 11 (01 Ekim 2026): 221-237. https://doi.org/10.64957/nesir.2066194.
JAMA
1.Florea M-V. Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature. Nesir. 2026;:221–237.
MLA
Florea, Marius-Virgil. “Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature”. Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, sy 11, Ekim 2026, ss. 221-37, doi:10.64957/nesir.2066194.
Vancouver
1.Marius-Virgil Florea. Embodied Levels of Participation in the Supernatural of Mircea Eliade’s Characters from his Fantastic Literature. Nesir. 01 Ekim 2026;(11):221-37. doi:10.64957/nesir.2066194

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