The Myth of Cupid and Psyche in the Poetry of Russian Freemasons: Ippolit Bogdanovich’s „Dushenka”
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https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.07.03Keywords:
myth, Freemason mythology, allegory, Ippolit Bogdanovich, mock-heroic poemAbstract
The Russian Masonic poets attempted to propagate their ideology and the mythology based on it through a coherent system of poetic imagery. In this context a particular place was occupied by the myth of Cupid and Psyche, understood as an allegory of the process of exploring the world and discovering human nature and as a pursuit of a noble ideal.
The author analyzes the image of the heroine of the narrative poem by Ippolit Bogdanovich as a traveller desirous of knowledge about the world and of self-knowledge, in the spirit of the Masonic mysticism.
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