Corin Braga
Biographic Data
| ID | 4009007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corin Braga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corin |
| FAMILY NAME | Braga |
| SIGNATURE | BRAGA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5028-8247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Costantin Stere
The Bessarabian writer Costantin Stere (1865–1936) wrote his epic novel, În preajma revoluţiei (On the Eve of the Revolution), as a sort of crowning achievement and meditation on his personal destiny. Based on the author’s biography, the work is structured as a Bildungsroman that traces the upbringing, education, and development of Ion (Vania) Răutu. Born against his mother’s wishes, Vania builds his personality around the complex of the unwanted…
Immortality as a Dystopian Counter-Ideal
Pain, sickness, ageing and death are some of the flaws of human nature that more ambitious utopians tried to expose by imagining different solutions for eradicating them. However, the attainment of immortality, as the supreme remedy for old age and death, was not seen by everyone as an affordable or desirable ideal. Dystopian writers offered a different perspective, showing that extinction is inherent to all beings and that avoiding it would dest…
Les anarchétypes
Dans cet article, nous proposons un concept inventé en roumain : l'« anarchétype ». Ce terme est dérivé de trois mots grecs : la particule privative « a », « an » (« a-, sans, anti, contre ») + « arkhaios » (« ancien, originaire, premier ») ou « arkhê » (« début, origine ») + « typos » (« type, modèle »). L’anarchétype serait, selon la façon dont on veut combiner les trois mots, soit un « modèle anarchique », soit un « anti-archétype ». L’archéty…
Letter to a Friend and Back to the Country
Voyages utopiques et SF dans deux romans grecs antiques
The Renaissance genre of utopia has its forerunners in the extraordinary voyages of the Roman Empire’s literature. Two of these adventure novels, Wonders beyond Thulé by Antonius Diogenes and True Histories by Lucian, from the 2nd century CE, stage different places with utopian characteristics (Hyperborea, Pythagora’s and Zamolxis’ communities, the Island of the Blessed, the Island of Dreams) or early SF traits (the Moon, the Sun, several aerial …
Littérature et théorie du chaos
While poststructuralist attacks against structured forms freed literature from the dominance of Aristotle’s canon, twentieth-century evolutions in physics and cosmology brought about a new world vision which also deeply influenced modern authors. If the universe was no longer Newtonian, linear and predictable, and if literature was to “imitate” this new reality, world-texts were also supposed to explore anarchical and complex landscapes. To be ab…
European Identities and Cultural Imaginaries
"Although a geographically small continent, Europe has fostered, over the past millennia, the emergence of an impressive number of languages, cultures and civilizations. This constitutes its richness and also its challenge: how should all these local, regional and national cultural identities be harmonized and integrated, without destroying, but rather conserving and enhancing them? A seminal concept in the investigation of the cultural, literary…
Canon et Anti-Canon (I)
Canon et Anti-Canon (II)
Distant Theory in Comparative Literary Studies
In this paper I want to propose a hermeneutical approach that I call “distant theory”. I start from the premise that mythology, literature and art, especially antique, medieval and early modern, in order to be fully comprehended need a reconstruction of the respective visions of the world and of human nature in which they were created and read by their public. This is also true for modern and contemporary works, but while pre-modern metaphysical …
Roumanie
The New Amazons
From Antiquity to Modernity, the topic of the Amazons questioned the relationships between men and women, triggering a series of anthropological, social and cultural issues. In the wake of the second-wave feminism of the ’60, resonating with the Women’s Liberation Movement, several authors revisited this topos: Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères (1969), Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975), Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), Joan Slonczew…
Collective Imaginaries and National Identities
"This paper presents how The Encyclopaedia of Romanian Imaginaries. Historical Patrimony and Cultural-Linguistic Identities (Polirom Editing House, 2020) reflects the Romanian cultural identity. The five volumes provide a synoptic perspective on the cultural inheritance and spiritual identities of Romania. Guided by the powerful and innovative concept of social and cultural imaginaries, it uses multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologie…
Géographies symboliques
Over the past few decades, cultural studies have embraced concepts and methodologies set forth by the new fields of inquiry brought about by the “spatial turn”. These new disciplines combine knowledge from the domains of geography and literature in an interdisciplinary way. In my paper I propose to go beyond this dialogue between disciplines to the roots of both geographical and literary representations, that is, I aim to discuss the geographical…
Le moi et l’autre dans le roman psychologique roumain
In the inter-war period, Romanian novelists imported from Western literature the techniques of the psychological novel. The exploration of subjectivity obliged them to develop polyphony and poly-perspectivism, experimenting with individual narrative points of view. As Camil Petrescu puts it, "I cannot evade myself I can only speak truthfully in the first person". This paper explores the relationship between identity and alterity in Romanian psych…
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Géographies symboliques
Over the past few decades, cultural studies have embraced concepts and methodologies set forth by the new fields of inquiry brought about by the “spatial turn”. These new disciplines combine knowledge from the domains of geography and literature in an interdisciplinary way. In my paper I propose to go beyond this dialogue between disciplines to the roots of both geographical and literary representations, that is, I aim to discuss the geographical…
Le moi et l’autre dans le roman psychologique roumain
In the inter-war period, Romanian novelists imported from Western literature the techniques of the psychological novel. The exploration of subjectivity obliged them to develop polyphony and poly-perspectivism, experimenting with individual narrative points of view. As Camil Petrescu puts it, "I cannot evade myself I can only speak truthfully in the first person". This paper explores the relationship between identity and alterity in Romanian psych…
Collective Imaginaries and National Identities
"This paper presents how The Encyclopaedia of Romanian Imaginaries. Historical Patrimony and Cultural-Linguistic Identities (Polirom Editing House, 2020) reflects the Romanian cultural identity. The five volumes provide a synoptic perspective on the cultural inheritance and spiritual identities of Romania. Guided by the powerful and innovative concept of social and cultural imaginaries, it uses multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologie…
Distant Theory in Comparative Literary Studies
In this paper I want to propose a hermeneutical approach that I call “distant theory”. I start from the premise that mythology, literature and art, especially antique, medieval and early modern, in order to be fully comprehended need a reconstruction of the respective visions of the world and of human nature in which they were created and read by their public. This is also true for modern and contemporary works, but while pre-modern metaphysical …
Roumanie
The New Amazons
From Antiquity to Modernity, the topic of the Amazons questioned the relationships between men and women, triggering a series of anthropological, social and cultural issues. In the wake of the second-wave feminism of the ’60, resonating with the Women’s Liberation Movement, several authors revisited this topos: Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères (1969), Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975), Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), Joan Slonczew…
Littérature et théorie du chaos
While poststructuralist attacks against structured forms freed literature from the dominance of Aristotle’s canon, twentieth-century evolutions in physics and cosmology brought about a new world vision which also deeply influenced modern authors. If the universe was no longer Newtonian, linear and predictable, and if literature was to “imitate” this new reality, world-texts were also supposed to explore anarchical and complex landscapes. To be ab…
European Identities and Cultural Imaginaries
"Although a geographically small continent, Europe has fostered, over the past millennia, the emergence of an impressive number of languages, cultures and civilizations. This constitutes its richness and also its challenge: how should all these local, regional and national cultural identities be harmonized and integrated, without destroying, but rather conserving and enhancing them? A seminal concept in the investigation of the cultural, literary…
Canon et Anti-Canon (I)
Canon et Anti-Canon (II)
Voyages utopiques et SF dans deux romans grecs antiques
The Renaissance genre of utopia has its forerunners in the extraordinary voyages of the Roman Empire’s literature. Two of these adventure novels, Wonders beyond Thulé by Antonius Diogenes and True Histories by Lucian, from the 2nd century CE, stage different places with utopian characteristics (Hyperborea, Pythagora’s and Zamolxis’ communities, the Island of the Blessed, the Island of Dreams) or early SF traits (the Moon, the Sun, several aerial …
Immortality as a Dystopian Counter-Ideal
Pain, sickness, ageing and death are some of the flaws of human nature that more ambitious utopians tried to expose by imagining different solutions for eradicating them. However, the attainment of immortality, as the supreme remedy for old age and death, was not seen by everyone as an affordable or desirable ideal. Dystopian writers offered a different perspective, showing that extinction is inherent to all beings and that avoiding it would dest…
Les anarchétypes
Dans cet article, nous proposons un concept inventé en roumain : l'« anarchétype ». Ce terme est dérivé de trois mots grecs : la particule privative « a », « an » (« a-, sans, anti, contre ») + « arkhaios » (« ancien, originaire, premier ») ou « arkhê » (« début, origine ») + « typos » (« type, modèle »). L’anarchétype serait, selon la façon dont on veut combiner les trois mots, soit un « modèle anarchique », soit un « anti-archétype ». L’archéty…
Letter to a Friend and Back to the Country
Costantin Stere
The Bessarabian writer Costantin Stere (1865–1936) wrote his epic novel, În preajma revoluţiei (On the Eve of the Revolution), as a sort of crowning achievement and meditation on his personal destiny. Based on the author’s biography, the work is structured as a Bildungsroman that traces the upbringing, education, and development of Ion (Vania) Răutu. Born against his mother’s wishes, Vania builds his personality around the complex of the unwanted…
Art (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · The Imaginary (3 works)