„ULTIMII” CRITICI, ÎNTRE GEOMETRIE ȘI FINEȚE

👤Author

Name: Raluca Dună
Affiliation: Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române.

📄Article

Citation Recommendation: DUNĂ, Raluca. „«Ultimii» critici, între geometrie și finite”. In: RITL, New Series, XI, No. 1-4, January-December 2017, p. 331–336.
Titlul: „ULTIMII” CRITICI, ÎNTRE GEOMETRIE ȘI FINEȚE
Title: THE “LAST” CRITICS, BETWEEN GEOMETRY AND REFINEMENT
Pages: 331–336
Language: Romanian
URL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2017/19_R_Duna.pdf

Abstract: This article is focused on major ideas of a book discussing the destiny of European XXth century criticism. „Geometry and Refinement”, by Mircea Martin follows the fundamental tensions of French criticism, mainly the intellectual versus the sensitive trend, the balance between the quest for the particular and individual element versus the opposite search for the generic form, a system of oppositions that may be resumed into one formula: ‟esprit de finesse” versus „esprit de géometrie”. Mircea Martin demonstrates that the Pascalian duality is in fact contradicted by the subtle paradoxes of those great, last critics who reinvented literature in their effort to render the dialogue with themselves into a relevant, transparent dialogue with the otherness of literature.

Keywords: literary criticism, individual consciousness, influence, the imagination of geometry/ of refinement.

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Bloom, Harold, Anxietatea influenței, Pitești, 2008.

Martin, Mircea, Geometrie și finețe, București, 2017.

Martin, Mircea, Critică și profunzime, București, 1974.