Intellectual and Emotional Types of Homecoming

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Abstract

In this article my aim is to outline a map of typologies of representations of home, seeking to illuminate the nature of the different issues contained therein, as well as the underlying feelings and mental mechanisms. I therefore try to draw a kind of cate­gorical map of the diverse perspectives implied in the representation of home, or homecoming, or the quest for a home. I distinguish five levels as central categories of the homecoming: the mythical, the ontological-religious, the anthropological, the political, the psychic and pathological.

 

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My doel met hierdie artikel is om ’n tipologiese kaart van uitbeeldings van die huis te skets, waarin sowel die aard van die verskillende kwessies wat daarin vervat is as die onderliggende gevoelens en geestesmeganismes belig word. Ek probeer dus om ’n kategoriese kaart te teken van die uiteenlopende perspektiewe wat in die uitbeelding van die huis, of tuiskoms, of die soeke na ’n huis veronderstel word. Ek onderskei vyf vlakke as sentrale kategorieë van die tuiskoms: die mitiese, die ontologies-godsdienstige, die antropologiese, die politieke, die psigiese en patologiese.

 

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Author Biography

José Pedro Serra, University of Lisbon

José Pedro Serra is a Full Professor at the University of Lisbon and is specialized in Greek tragedy and its reception. He is the author of Pensar o Trágico. Categorias da Tragédia Grega, awarded with the Prémio PEN (2007) and with the Prémio Jacinto Prado Coelho (2008). He has published a range of journal articles and book chapters on literature, classics, and philosophy. He is the director of Dedalus: Portuguese Journal of Comparative Literature, and the director of the Library of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon

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2020-03-01

How to Cite

Serra, José Pedro. 2020. “Intellectual and Emotional Types of Homecoming”. Journal of Literary Studies 36 (1):60-75. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/11487.