Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana : a conduit for culture, consciousness and cognition

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dc.contributor.authorSpruyt, Marie
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23T08:37:18Z
dc.date.available2020-01-23T08:37:18Z
dc.date.issued2010-01
dc.descriptionPeer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso, Volume 2, Issue 1, Jan 2010, p. 1 - 6en_US
dc.description.abstractEco’s novel describes the popular culture of the Italian fascist period, by deconstructing signs, symbols and signals from a particular period in the lives of both the author and his protagonist. In this sense, the novel can be regarded as a crossover between two genres, the literary and historical. However, the mixture of art and text as a medium for storytelling, or for making references to the human condition, places it in the genre of the graphic novel. This article explores the novel on three levels. A surface reading establishes it as an historical construct, which prioritizes unofficial memory and popular culture. On a deeper level, however, the protagonist’s search into his past can be regarded, in a Jungian sense, as an archetypal journey of discovery. On a third level the ancestral home, Solara, can be regarded as a metaphor for, on the one hand, the collective unconscious, where recurring symbols and motifs act as transformational metaphors and often serve as links between states and levels of consciousness and, on the other hand, for the human brain.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSpruyt, M., 2010. Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: A conduit for culture, consciousness and cognition. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(1), pp.1-6.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-2815
dc.identifier.issnhttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC112666
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/1959
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zululanden_US
dc.subjectpostmodernist literatureen_US
dc.subjectgraphic novelen_US
dc.subjectculture, archetypesen_US
dc.titleUmberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana : a conduit for culture, consciousness and cognitionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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