Course aims:

Including in a unitary and coherent structure the main moments of chronological evolution of romanian culture and contemporary literature
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Course Entry Requirements:

None

Course contents:

1. Preliminaries. The Poetic generation of Sibiu Literary Circle 2. Ştefan Aug. Doinaş, Radu Stanca 3. Epic, lyric and dramatic in poetry of Sibiu Literary Circle. 4. One Multiple, essential myth of Doinaș poetry. 5. The Group of oneiric poets. The Poetics of romanian oneirism. Posting of surrealism. 6. Legislation of the dream in Leonid Dimov poetry. Dimov, the poet as Jester of Totalitarism. 7. Autarch of image in Virgil Mazilescu poetry. 8. The mesomorph daydream in Emil Brumaru poetry. 9. Mircea Ivănescu: the time and place dreams 10. The permanency of surrealism: Gellu Naum. The eruptive certainties poetic. 11. Romanian Textualism or postmodernism 12. The ’80 Generation. Parody, irony, existential engagement. The ‘80 shades 13. Textualism in ’80 prose: Gheorghe Crăciun, Mircea Nedelciu 14. Antitextualiste reactions: Ioan Groşan, Ioan Lăcustă

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification

Learning outcomes:

Initiating students in poetry and prose metamorphoses of contemporary consciousness. Learning students making exegesis of a modern and postmodern poem, and exegesis of romanian postmodern novelEuropean culture and literature.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%

Recommended reading:

Nicolae Manolescu, Metamorfozele poeziei (Metamorphoses of Poetry), E.P.L, București, 1968, x.
Ion Pop, Jocul poeziei (The Poetic Game), Ed. Cartea Românească, București, 1982, x.
Gh. Grigurcu, Existenţa poeziei (The Existence of Poetry), Ed. Cartea românească, Bucureşti, 1986, x.
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