Romanian Literature as World Literature

Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance, and East European cultural systems. This "intersectional" revisiting of Romanian literature is organized into three parts. Opening with a fresh look at the literary ideology of Romania''s "national poet," Mihai Eminescu, part I dwells primarily on literary-cultural history as process and discipline. Here, the focus is on cross-cultural mimesis, the role of strategic imitation in the production of a distinct literature in modern Romania, and the shortcomings marking traditional literary historiography''s handling of these issues. Part II examines the ethno-linguistic and territorial complexity of Romanian literatures or "Romanian literature in the plural." Part III takes up the trans-systemic rise of Romanian, Jewish Romanian, and Romanian-European avant-garde and modernism, Socialist Realism, exile and emigre literature, and translation.>

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• Authors: Mircea Martin, Mircea (University of Bucharest Martin, Christian Moraru, Andrei Terian
• Assisted by: Thomas Oliver Beebee (Editor), Mircea Martin (Editor), Mircea (University of Bucharest Martin (Editor), Christian Moraru (Editor), Christian (University of North Carolina Moraru (Editor), Andrei Terian (Editor), Andrei (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Terian (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781501354649
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-5464-9
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Literatures as World Literature; Literatures as World Literature; Literatures as World Literatur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Romanian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern