DECONSTRUCŢIA CANONULUI LITERAR ÎN CRITICA ACTUALĂ ROMÂNĂ ŞI SÂRBĂ

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Name: Mariana Dan
Affiliation: Universitatea din Belgrad

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Citation Recommendation: DAN, Mariana. „Deconstrucţia canonului literar în critica actuală română şi sârbă”. In: RITL, New Series, IV, No. 1-4, January-December 2010, p. 391–404
Titlul: DECONSTRUCŢIA CANONULUI LITERAR ÎN CRITICA ACTUALĂ ROMÂNĂ ŞI SÂRBĂ
Title: DECONSTRUCTION OF LITERARY DOGMA INTO NOWADAYS ROMANIAN AND SERBIAN CRITICISM
Pages: 391–404
Language: Romanian
URL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2010/20_M_Dan.pdf

Abstract: Both Romanian and Serbian literary critics have recently tried to re-evaluate the literary achievements of the past from a nowadays perspective. In Romania, Eugen Negrici, tries to ‘demystify’ a whole Romanian cultural background envisaging the fact that the specific historical, political and social facts were favourable for the process of myth formation. As myth is viewed as ideology and mentality, literature and literary critics are presented as its supportive factors. In his multidisciplinary study, Negrici, while not believing in the possibility of the diachronic evolution of literature any longer, still believes in the evolution of mentality and society – which is a paradox. His deconstruction of the literary process, which envisages the reader, the writer, the literary critic and the issue of reception, is, at times, mordant and his evaluation is not necessarily followed by a constructive re-evaluation. The main idea of the book, which is the need of Romanian literature to synchronize with other European literatures, is old, and was already described in Romania in Eugen Lovinescu’s studies, prior to World War II. According to Negrici, it is the Romanian mentality in the first place that is due to ‘evolve’. In Serbia, Gojko Tešić’s study represents an endeavour to re-evaluate and rehabilitate some very important writers of the 20th century Serbian literature, in spiţe of the bios perspective of more generations of literary critics and university professors. While presenting, by numerous examples and in a convincing way, the evolution of modern Serbian poetry, Tešić discloses the inter-relation between modernism and avant-guarde, which, only taken together constitute a paradigm in Serbian 20th century literature. The fact is interesting that the poet Vasko Popa, of Romanian origin, but who wrote in Serbian, represents, in Tešić’s opinion, a landmark in nowadays poetry, and a point of reference from which the literature of the past can be reshaped and ‘refreshed’ by a new and productive criticai outlook. The comparison between the Romanian and Serbian critics’ approaches is very interesting, as it reveals that while many important Romanian writers are rejected by some Romanian criticists from an a priori perspective, the same writers are highly appreciated abroad. It is the case of numerous Romanian writers to have had a better reception abroad than in România. This leads to the conclusion that critics like Negrici, while trying to demistify the canons of Romanian literature, involve in a new process of myth-formation, which is not in favour of Romanian literature.

Cuvinte-cheie: critică, istorie şi teorie literară, mit şi antropologie, relaţii culturale româno-sârbe, imagologie, poezie.

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