CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Course Code: MR422 • Study year: I • Academic Year: 2024-2025
Domain: Philology - Masters • Field of study: Romanian literature and culture in European context
Type of course: Compulsory
Language of instruction: Romanian
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Paul Virgil Nanu
Seminar tutor: Paul Virgil Nanu
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Class / Seminary
Number of teaching hours per semester: 14
Number of teaching hours per week: 1
Semester: Summer
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 8

Course aims:

Including in a unitary and coherent structure the main moments of chronological evolution of Romanian culture
Including in a unitary and coherent structure the main moments of chronological evolution of Romaniancontemporary literature
Including in a unitary and coherent structure the main moments of chronological evolution of Romaniancontemporary poetry

Course Entry Requirements:

none

Course contents:

1. Introduction 2. Ştefan Aug. Doinaş, Radu Stanca 3. Leonid Dimov, Virgil Mazilescu 4. Emil Brumaru. Mircea Ivănescu 5. Mircea Cărtărtescu, Florin Iaru 6. Ioan Es. Pop, Marta Petreu 7. Conclusions

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 novel.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

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

Recommended reading:

Nicolae Manolescu, Metamorfozele poeziei (Metamorphoses of Poetry), EPL, Bucharest, 1968,
Ion Pop, Jocul poeziei (The Poetic Game), Cartea românească, Buchest, 1982,
Gheorghe Grigurcu, Existenţa poeziei (The Existence of Poetry), Cartea românească, Bucharest, 1986,
Virgil Mazilescu, Opera poetică, Aius Printed, Bucharest, 2013,
Mircea Cărtărescu, Poezia, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2015,