Operaționalizarea experimentului în critica literară românească

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 144-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlad Pojoga
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Experimental Literature ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Fold Structure ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Romanian Literature

This study has a two-fold structure, in its first part exploring various models of experimental literature, proposed by researchers such as Gerald Prince and Warren Motte, as well as theoretical attempts to define and analyze experimental literature in Romania. The second part focuses on the quantitative analysis of keywords related to “the experimental” found in literary histories of Romanian literature authored by E. Lovinescu, G. Călinescu, Nicolae Manolescu, and Mihai Iovănel, as well as The General Dictionary of Romanian Literature and The Chronological Dictionary of the Romanian Novel. By simply searching several pointedly chosen terms in the corpus, a cartography of what is considered to be experimental emerges clearly, alongside its relation to the canon, to the dynamics of literary genres, and to the temporal evolution of Romanian literature.

Primul mythos de stânga al literaturii române contemporane

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu Vancu
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Romanian Literature

Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is the first leftist major narrative of Romanian literature – and the shockwaves it generated were due even more to this firm ideological option (the first such one in the history of major Romanian literary histories) than to its literary content proper. The present article aims at asserting the main three accomplishments and shortcomings generated by this ideological option – namely that: i) it succeeds in coalescing the first coherent narrative of the last three decades of Romanian literature; ii) it sometimes turns from an ideological option into an ideological bias – and modifies the factuality of Romanian literature, eliminating important writers, exaggerating the qualities of some other ones, searching to distribute merits (to leftist writers) and punishments (to right-wing ones) according with their political option, and not with their literary qualifications; iii) it is an impressive stylistic achievement in itself, even though quite ironically its author disregards the virtues of aestheticism.

Genre Practice in Literary Historiography: A Romanian Case

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Ana Țăranu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Genre Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

Premised on the pervasiveness of generic categories within literary historiography, the present analysis attempts to delineate the generic idioms present within three histories of Romanian literature (authored by G. Călinescu, Nicolae Manolescu and Mihai Iovănel, respectively). Engaging a descriptively historical, rather than theoretical, approach to genre and its metadiscourses, the paper begins with an abridged version of the cardinal disputes of genre criticism. Subsequently, it comparatively addresses the presence of genre within the three volumes, aiming to locate them within recognizable frameworks of genericity and to establish the overlapping territories of their generic landscapes. Thus, it distinguishes G. Călinescu as a practitioner of post-Romantic genre theory, further showcasing how some of his central aestheticist positions survive in Nicolae Manolescu’s moderately formalist account of the issue. Against the backdrop of their more conservative, teleological historiographical projects, Mihai Iovănel’s 2021 Istoria Literaturii Române Contemporane 1990-2020 [The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature 1990-2020] displays a distinct methodological apparatus, predicated on the author’s rejection of the paradigmatic autonomy of the aesthetic. His employment of materialist theories of art is corelative to a conception of genre as a contingent, empirically determined instrument of analysis, which, far from being a rhetorically stable, abstract category, actively mediates the relationship between social and aesthetic history. This shift engenders substantial amendments to the physiognomy of literary history as genre, enabling it to encompass extra-literary (and noncanonical) phenomena. Keywords: literary genres, literary history, Romanian literature, Mihai Iovănel.

scholarly journals Pull out all the stops: Textual analysis via punctuation sequences

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra N. M. Darmon ◽  
Marya Bazzi ◽  
Sam D. Howison ◽  
Mason A. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Word Choice ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Stylistic Feature ◽  
Pull Out ◽  
Over Time

Whether enjoying the lucid prose of a favorite author or slogging through some other writer's cumbersome, heavy-set prattle (full of parentheses, em-dashes, compound adjectives, and Oxford commas), readers will notice stylistic signatures not only in word choice and grammar, but also in punctuation itself. Indeed, visual sequences of punctuation from different authors produce marvelously different (and visually striking) sequences. Punctuation is a largely overlooked stylistic feature in ``stylometry'', the quantitative analysis of written text. In this paper, we examine punctuation sequences in a corpus of literary documents and ask the following questions: Are the properties of such sequences a distinctive feature of different authors? Is it possible to distinguish literary genres based on their punctuation sequences? Do the punctuation styles of authors evolve over time? Are we on to something interesting in trying to do stylometry without words, or are we full of sound and fury (signifying nothing)?

scholarly journals A quantitative analysis of the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of the bluetongue virus outbreak in the island of Lesvos, Greece, in 2014

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrisovalantis Malesios ◽  
Myrsini Chatzipanagiotou ◽  
Nikolaos Demiris ◽  
Apostolos Kantartzis ◽  
Georgios Chatzilazarou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Bluetongue Virus ◽  
Temporal Evolution

Tabloul prozei contemporane și valențele realismului în Istoria literaturii române contemporane: 1990-2020 de Mihai Iovănel

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Victor Cobuz
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
The Third ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Romanian Literature

In an era in which literary histories are written by collective of academics trying to transcend the national paradigm in which these works were once wrote, The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 by Mihai Iovănel is an intellectual effort that may seem obsolete. Nevertheless, Mihai Iovănel’s book proposes new ways of understanding the contemporary Romanian literary field that were not taken into consideration by previous similar critical endeavours. This paper aims to investigate how The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature constructs an overview of the Romanian fiction wrote in the last three decades and the critical approaches deployed for this purpose. The main interest of this article will be how does Mihai Iovănel discusses Romanian contemporary fiction and how does he instrumentalizes the concept of realism. We will look more closely at the third part of the book, “The Evolution of Fiction,” but the discussion will not omit the relation of this chapter with others. The paper will concentrate on the concepts put forward by Mihai Iovănel to systematize the complex subfield of contemporary Romanian fiction, like capitalist realism, the famous term coined by Mark Fisher. Also, we will try to see how The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature relate to previous literary histories or books of literary criticism that resembles Mihai Iovănel’s work in some respects or that have similar goals but different methods.

scholarly journals The Character Network in Liviu Rebreanu’s Ion: A Quantitative Analysis of Dialogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-47 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Rural Literature ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
Character Network ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

This study revisits what is widely considered “the first modern novel” in Romanian literature, Liviu Rebreanu’s Ion, from a network theory perspective. Isolating the dialogue and quantitatively analysing the interventions of every character and their interactions in the fictional world, it provides a blueprint for the exploration of social and personal dynamics between characters. In recent years, rural literature in Romania has undergone a recontextualization process. Following in the footsteps of these approaches, our research provides the first character network of Ion and outlines who talks, how much, and to whom. It also explores how differences in social class influence speaking time or the structure of the individual discourses, taking an in-depth look at the relationship between and roles of the two characters who talk most.

scholarly journals SCRIITORI ROMÂNI DE EXPRESIE STRĂINĂ TRADUCĂTORI AI OPERELOR ROMÂNEŞTI: CAZUL ANDREI CODRESCU

2021 ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
Luiza MARINESCU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
National Literature ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
National Literatures

The literary tradition and the production of literary histories has long focused upon “national literature,” which is to say those works written in the tongue of the country in question. As a result, writers of Romanian origin who lived in a foreign country and wrote in the language of their host country were often overlooked by Romanian critics, because such writers were considered to be exponents of the national literatures of the foreign countries in which they resided. In the case of Romanian literature, there are several generations of writers of multilingual expression, and the above dynamic has proven to be the case for a very long time. Throughout the centuries, the language of administration and culture was often different from Romanian vernacular, and the writers who managed to become internationally known were those writing in the language of culture rather than those writing in Romanian. This study analyzes the work of Andrei Codrescu, a Romanian-American writer who managed to transform his experience of exile into a “Road Scholar” (according to his film of this name) leading to a profitable university career enlightened by literature.

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