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Religijny model świata w literaturze fantastycznej

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Tomalak B.

Świat i Słowo

2014

vol. 12

issue (2)23

213-230

From the primordial times the need of religious experience has always been an inalienable human need, hence the contemporary culture proposes the return to the mythical scenarios through partial reconstruction of primeval believes and attaching new meanings to the imaginary sphere. Fantasy literature recalls the animistic model, making references to myths, magic fairy-tales, heroic epic poetry or medieval chivalry poetry. Besides the traditional roles of the myth: community creating ethnogenetic original myth, its fairy-tale nature satisfying the need of the miraculous, in modern times, as it has always been in the history of mankind, the main role is played by the myth of initiation, which enables the surrogate initiation in the virtual world of literary fiction. Fantasy worlds bring us back as far back as to the late Palaeolithic, to the magic culture to the undiversified world filled with sacrum. Contrary to this, in the science-fiction literature the role of magic is performed by science. In literary texts which combine the elements of science-fiction and fantasy (there are more and more such hybrids) the hero’s evolution, conceived as an initiation in the shamanic biographical model, leads to the higher forms of being, in which the Aliens/Others, who represent more advanced civilisations, play the structural roles of gods.

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