Shambhala as a Sacred Place: the Central Point of the Nothing Sacred Series Universe

• Authors: Marek Jastrzębski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

This article examines the duology of Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, consisting of the novels Nothing Sacred andLast Refuge. The paper aims to present the function of the literary Shambhala in the context of the space-timemodel of the world presented by the books under study. Based on Mircea Eliade’s comparative religion theory,the author puts forward and attempts to prove the hypothesis of a far-reaching similarity between the function ofScarborough’s Shambhala in the narrative universe and the meaning of a sacred place in the archaic, religiousmodel of reality.

Keywords

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Shambhala; science fiction; fantasy; sacred place; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

• Publisher: Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities/Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach
• Journal: Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 14-26

Dates

published

2020-11-24

Contributors

author

Marek Jastrzębski

Identifiers

DOI

10.34739/fci.2020.01.02