Quixotic Imagery in Ideological Mythmaking
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2016
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Pronkevych, Oleksandr
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Abstract
Each ideology has its own system of symbolic representation, which contributes to establishing
hegemonies in the minds of human beings in the struggle with other ideologies. Literary imagery
is an important part of ideological mythmaking. It provides creators of ideologies with lists of
authors, citations, and characters of famous works of verbal art, which become icons of certain
political, religious, esthetical values, beliefs, and principles. However, the semiotic mechanism
of converting literary imagery into ideological myths is not clear. To address this question this
paper focuses on the case of Don Quixote, as Cervantes’ protagonist has become the front man
of numerous ideologies that contradict each other.
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ideology, ideological mythmaking, archetype, word-progenitor, quixotic discourse, Romantic Don Quixote, article
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Pronkevych Oleksandr. Quixotic Imagery in Ideological Mythmaking [electronic resource] / Oleksandr Pronkevych // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2016. - No. 3. - P. 187–196.