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Eliade, Mircea [first Edition]
ELIADE, MIRCEA [FIRST EDITION] (1907–1986), Romanian-born historian of religions, humanist, orientalist, philosopher, and creative writer. The career of Mircea El...
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Eliade, Mircea [further Considerations]
ELIADE, MIRCEA [FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS]. Since his death in 1986 Eliade's status has been problematic and the value of his contribution to the academic s...
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Biography EssayMircea Eliade, a leading scholar of religions and an acclaimed novelist, was a prominent member of the generation of 1927 that became active in Romania during the late 1920s and dominat...
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Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was a Romanian-born historian of religions and a novelist whose works were known in translation the world over.Mircea Eliade began his life in Bucharest March 9, 1907. While ...
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Mircea Eliade, a leading scholar of religions and an acclaimed novelist, was a prominent member of the generation of 1927 that became active in Romania during the late 1920s and dominated the cultural...
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Critical Essay by Vintila Horia
Mircea Eliade's novel Forêt Interdite [The Forbidden Forest], whose mythic signification is evident,… belongs to the current inspired by the depth ...
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Critical Essay by George Uscatescu
[The] literary work of Mircea Eliade presents itself to us open to a global understanding, through the well-armed and lucid critical spirit of its author. We misjudg...
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Critical Essay by Mircea Eliade
I think it will be evident to any attentive reader [of Tales of the Occult] that I wanted to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic folklore, to a series ...
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Critical Essay by Charles S. J. White
One feels confident that additional translations … of Eliade's literary oeuvre will be recognized as imperative in the English speaking world for un...
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Critical Essay by Marguerite Dorian
Auf der Mântuleasa-Strasse is a genuine "fantastic story" in the best hair-raising tradition; but the incredible, the bizarre, is firmly suppor...
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Critical Essay by Nicholas Catanoy
Delusional thought processes leading to bizarre conduct and scenes of pathological suspicion are described with Voltairean irony [in Die Pelerine (The Cape)]. There ...
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Critical Essay by E. S. Turner
[No Souvenirs: Journal 1957–1969] is packed with the jottings of an overflowing mind: dreams too good to lose; insights to be refined later; sad thoughts on the d...
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Critical Essay by Nicholas Catanoy
Obviously there is far too much material [in Die drei Grazien (The Three Graces)] for a conventional story. As was the case in most of his other stories or novels ...
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Critical Essay by Nicholas Catanoy
In Der Hundertjährige (The Centogenarian), which deals with the problem of rejuvenation and also offers a final speculation on the Übermensch, Mircea E...
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