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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2010  
         
  Article:   DU PARADIS TERRESTRE À L’UTOPIE. AVATARS MIGRANTS DU THÈME DU « LIEU PARFAIT » / FROM EARTHLY PARADISE TO UTOPIA. MIGRANT AVATARS OF THE .

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  Abstract:  The cultural archetype of the “perfect place” has created a wide range of religious and literary avatars in the European tradition. The purpose of my article is to re-create the cultural “biography” of this trans-generic topic. My goal is to approach the series of topoi (or loci) which have provided a rich figurative substance for several cultures: the Golden Age, the Islands of Blissfulness, the Garden of Eden, the Promised Land, Millennium, Mag Mell, or the Celtic Avalon, the magical paradises of the Renaissance, Cocagne, Arcadia, and Utopia. This succession reveals the fact that a strong continuity can be drawn between the ancient and Christian Terrestrial Paradise and the Renaissance utopias. Although opposite, as the City of God vs. the City of Man, as God’s creation vs. a human artifact, the Paradise and the Utopia are nevertheless two variants (religious vs. laic) of the quest for an ideal place.

Key Words: Comparative Literature, Terrestrial Paradise, Utopia, the Golden Age, Avalon, the Land of Cocagne, Arcadia. 		 
         
     
         
         
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