TY - JOUR
TI - Between a Folkloric Topos and a Cultural Myth. A Few Glosses on the Ballad “Master Manole”
AU - Jurczak, Kazimierz
TI - Between a Folkloric Topos and a Cultural Myth. A Few Glosses on the Ballad “Master Manole”
AB - 
	The folkloric topos of the walled-up woman, present in several variants in South-Eastern Europe, has a special status in the Romanian culture. The “Legend of Master Manole” from which it originates, along with “Miorița”, has become a canonical literary text. Considered by G. Călinescu as a “cultural myth”, one of the four essential Romanian myths, in the interwar and communist period, it was intensively exploited ideologically and politically. Interpreted by writers, either as a sample of Romanian creative genius, or as an example of dedication to the work of building the new world, the topos has long overgrown its initial condition as a simple motif of popular culture.

	*Această lucrare a fost sprijinită de Narodowe Centrum Nauki [National Science Centre in Poland] rin proiectul The Topos of an “Immured Woman” in the Cultures of Southeastern Europe and Hungary, no. 2020/37/B/HS2/00152.
VL - Volume 23 (2023)
IS - Special Issue 2
PY - 2023
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 223
EP - 230
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.23.024.18518
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/intre-un-topos-folcloric-si-un-mit-cultural-cateva-glose-pe-marginea-baladei-mesterul-manole
KW - Creation
KW - sacrifice
KW - folklore
KW - written literature
KW - folklore topos
KW - cultural myth