RUMENIAN LITERATURE MOD.1

The course is focused on the contemporary Romanian poetry from the beginning of the XX-th century until today.

The course will be divided into two parts:

1) A short introduction will be focused on the important concepts of synchronization and westernization and on the constant dialectic existing in the Romanian culture between the contacts and the imitation of the European literary models and the influence of the native folk and folk substrate. Students will obtain some stylistic-formal coordinates, which are useful in order to analyse texts: the individuation of the relationships with European poetic forms and those with popular tradition, the different stylistical levels of the poetic language, the different thematic sources, etc.

2) The second part will focus on some key figures of Romanian poetry: Minulescu, Arghezi, Blaga, Stanescu, Blandiana, Ivanescu until the generation of the 1980s and the 2000s. The main stylistic-interpretative coordinates will be provided for each author, offering a selection of texts that will be analyzed. One of objectives is to underline the relationship of these authors with the western element and the native element. Furthermore, the course will focus on some aspects of the critical reception of the authors and on the translation problems.

At the end of the course, students will know:

- contextualizing contemporary Romanian poetry within the Romanian dialectic between Westernization and tradition;
- know the main moments of Romanian literature of the twentieth century: symbolism, modernism, postmodernism, etc.
- identify the main forms, periods and authors of the Romanian poetry of the twentieth century and the early 2000s;
- to analyze a poetic text linguistically, stylistically and thematically.

There are not requirements: the course is open to all interested people. The Professor will provide interpretative coordinates useful for students, who do not have previous knowledge of the Romanian language.

The course will outline the profile of some of the greatest Romanian poets of the twentieth century in an European perspective, developing a stylistic and formal analysis of their texts. During the program, texts by Ion Minulescu, Lucian Blaga, Tudor Arghezi, etc. will be presented. focusing on the stylistic and formal values ​​of the texts as well as on the relationship of the latter with the contents and literary ideologies of their authors.
The course will offer also references to the contemporary European literary production and to some pages of Romanian contemporary literary criticism.

The bibliography will be provided during the lessons.

The final exam consists exclusively of an oral test

Frontal lesson with distribution of textual material in paper format.

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