The End of Comedy. For an Archaeology of Reconciliation in the 19th Century Romanian Theatre
The present article analyses the social function of comedy in the age of building the Romanian modern culture, from an ethical perspective. The importance of the social role of comedy is underlined by its unparalleled prominence and productivity as a ...
Adrian Tudurachi
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On the “Cultural Heritage” of Literary Criticism in Eugen Simion’s Work: Between “Comprehensive Criticism”, “Directional Criticism” and Militant Criticism (1965-1971) [PDF]
The aim of this study is to examine the theme of “cultural heritage” in the light of Eugen Simion’s work (1965-1971). Although this intellectual coordinate was promoted by the ideologues of the communist regime, it was approached in an aesthetic manner ...
George NEAGOE
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The Return of the Author [PDF]
This article will discuss Întoarcerea Autorului (The Return of the Author), published for the first time in Communist Romania in 1981, and, after 1990, in France and the United States, republished in post-Communist Romania in 1993, 2005, and 2013, the ...
Raluca DUNĂ
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Computational Literary Genre Stylistics [PDF]
The project in a nutshell: This project will investigate the relation between literary genres (generic facets) and style (stylistic attributes). Analyses are based on large collections of literary texts and use or develop state-of-the-art methods in ...
Schöch, Christof
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The Figure of the Literary Critic in Diaries and Dialogues (Outlines of a Self-Portrait) [PDF]
In most of his books (Timpul trăirii, timpul mărturisirii. Jurnal parizian, Sfidarea retoricii. Jurnal german, Fragmente cririce, Ficțiunea jurnalului intim, Genurile biograficului), Eugen Simion focused on the essential theme of the ideal critic and ...
Andrei MILCA
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Short-span temporalities in contemporary literary studies
In recent literary studies, the themes and figures of the ephemeral may be found mainly in two domains: within the framework of literary sociology (in order to capture the writer’s identity during a time of medialization and performance derived from what
Adrian Tudurachi
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The General Dictionary of Romanian Literature, Canon of Romanian Literature. E. Simion and the Post-Revolutionary Debates on the Literary Canon [PDF]
A central topic of the Romanian post-1989 literary life, the problem of revisions of the literary canon triggered a fierce debate between rival intellectual groups, a confrontation having as one its main goals the obtaining or, on the contrary, the ...
Laurențiu HANGANU
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Feverish fictions: William T. Vollmann and American literary history after postmodernism [PDF]
The rise of the New Sincerity in contemporary American fiction has largely been read on terms provided by a handful of early proponents. This article contends that more complex formulations of the notion are necessary if it is to remain useful as a ...
Coffman, Christopher K.
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The Birth of Tragedy in the Cinquecento: Humanism and Literary History [PDF]
Humanist literary historians treated Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ in a distinctive way: as a historical source. How had the Greek tragedy arisen, what was its relation to the comedy, and how was it performed?
Haugen, Kristine Louise
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Rewriting, Literariness, Literary History
La réécriture est aussi ancienne que le système littéraire lui-même, elle a permis de cristalliser ce qui a fini par recevoir le nom de littérature au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, car elle était essentielle à la construction d’une tradition créatrice (en tant que mimesis de grandes actions artistiques) et d’une épistémologie critique partagée.
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