The point of departure of this study is the "reversed garden of Armida", a metaphor used by the protagonist of Tommaso Landolfi's narrative as an illustration of his own adventures. The article argues that Landolfi's rhetorical and discursive procedures produce a radical twisting of fantastic narrative's defining features. The structuring ambiguity of an event apparently inexplicable by the logic of the action's setting is shifted by Landolfi from the level of the story to that of the language, quite in keeping wth the author's poetics set on revealing the unreliability of language.
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The article inteprets the ‘Slavic goddess’ Živa, the central divine figure in Prešeren's Baptism on the Savica and in the Slovenian mythological imaginary, as a literary construct esentially based on the Venus of Virgil's Aeneid. It argues that Prešeren constructs the ‘pagan’ antagonism between Love and Strife on the model of the traditional allegory of Venus and Mars, and that the syncretistic tendency of the Christian creed presented at the end of the poem can be explained by a reference to the Platonist allegory of duae Veneres.
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