Radu Vancu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6297494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radu Vancu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radu |
| FAMILY NAME | Vancu |
| SIGNATURE | VANCU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8798-0683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tragic Poetry and the Cultural Foundation of Power
Franco Moretti posited in his 1983 book, Signs Taken for Wonders, that we live in a post-tragic and anti-tragic age in which tragic has been replaced by compromise both in fiction and in the modern lyric. The present article tries to re-examine Moretti’s conjecture in a historic period which has given up compromise and revived the tragic. In Moretti’s terms, tragic’s condition of existence involves “a civilization irreparably divided between host…
Etica memoriei și literatura. Două studii de caz
The current article applies memory ethics to literature, aiming to observe what happens to poets when their political ideology comes into radical conflict with the very instinct of freedom in which their ideology originates. It happened unfortunately too often that the ideology of the human park led in the 20th century towards genocide – or, with a post-Lemkian terminology, towards classicide, politicide, democide. What happens in these cases wit…
On 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics
This academic interview with contemporary poet Andrei Codrescu (dating July 2022) examines several contemporary meanings of 21st-century poetry and poetics, the relevance of American poetry schools that dominated the latter half of the 20th century, effects of this post-humanistic turn on the poetic discourse(s). It also whether the public condemnation of Russian culture in general is justified or not in the aftermath of the Russian aggression ag…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the volume
Patru cazuri de violență împotriva scriitorilor
The article examines some cases of violence against writers in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, and in the United States. Using as starting point Salman Rushdie’s essays from Languages of Truth, as well as his atrocious experience of the attack against him in August 2022, the article moves on to examine the examples of other writers abused not by attackers, but by governments, whose violence is more often than that of the isolated agressors. The article …
Poeticile memoriei la Paul Celan și George Steiner
Both Paul Celan’s and George Steiner’s writings deal with the relationship between culture and barbarism; both originate in a terrible guilt of the survivor. In Paul Celan’s case, it is the guilt of surviving his own parents, exterminated in an internment camp in the Transnistria Governorate in 1942. In Steiner’s case, when he was 11 years old and on a vacation with his family in New York, his father decided that they would not return to Paris, b…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1933-1947)
From the point of view of its internal temporality, the Romanian novel between 1933 and 1947 demonstrates an overwhelming preference for negotiating the present. After 1933 the world had already gone through a World War and a world economic crisis – so that the metabolism of the present in post-1933 Romanian novels can also be explained as a post-traumatic shock, an attempt to process the traumatic information of recent history. But the Romanian …
Primul mythos de stânga al literaturii române contemporane
Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is the first leftist major narrative of Romanian literature – and the shockwaves it generated were due even more to this firm ideological option (the first such one in the history of major Romanian literary histories) than to its literary content proper. The present article aims at asserting the main three accomplishments and shortcomings generated by this ideological option –…
Geografia romanului românesc (1933-1947)
This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian novel published between 1933-1947 represents cities, towns, peripheries and villages in the fictional worlds. It asserts the democratization of the narrative universe through the novel of the periphery and discusses the birth of the touristic novel, in which characters often spend time in new areas for relaxation. It also challenges the idea of spatial atomization, since the geographical prefer…
Poli de producție ai romanului românesc (1933-1947)
This article studies the production of the Romanian novel published between 1933 and 1947 by deploying instruments of quantitative analysis. More precisely, based on the corpus resulted from the project The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: 1933-1947 (more than 700 digitized novels), our analysis focuses on the canonical writers and their “rivals”, the authors and their novels bypassed by the literary canon, the geographical networks of produ…
Geografia romanului românesc (1901-1932)
This article is part of a series that investigates through quantitative and geocritical means the corpus of novels created by the research project Astra Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932 (around 370 novels digitized). One of the many foci of our analyses delves into the internal geography of the Romanian novel as it manifests itself through geolocated metadata that reveal the spatial diversity of the corpus, concerni…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1844-1932)
The present article follows the relationship of the Romanian novelistic output between 1901 and 1932 with time and temporal distribution. Its emphasis falls on the degree of correlation between the time of publication and the time during which the events unfold for each corresponding novel, expressed through a variable coined “distance”. By making use of this variable, the temporal distribution of the novelistic corpus in the article clearly show…
The Pound Reaction. Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature
The Pound Reaction.Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature, is not actually a Pound monograph.Better said, it is one -but not only that.Indeed, taking Pound's case as its starting point, it aims at much more than just re-reading Poundʼs poetryeven though this would have already been a major and applaudable task.But Grossʼs ambition is much higher: his study sets as a goal the examination of the Bildung of a whole cultural contex…
Geografia romanului românesc (1901-1932)
This article is part of a series that investigates through quantitative and geocritical means the corpus of novels created by the research project Astra Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932 (around 370 novels digitized). One of the many foci of our analyses delves into the internal geography of the Romanian novel as it manifests itself through geolocated metadata that reveal the spatial diversity of the corpus, concerni…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1844-1932)
The present article follows the relationship of the Romanian novelistic output between 1901 and 1932 with time and temporal distribution. Its emphasis falls on the degree of correlation between the time of publication and the time during which the events unfold for each corresponding novel, expressed through a variable coined “distance”. By making use of this variable, the temporal distribution of the novelistic corpus in the article clearly show…
Primul mythos de stânga al literaturii române contemporane
Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is the first leftist major narrative of Romanian literature – and the shockwaves it generated were due even more to this firm ideological option (the first such one in the history of major Romanian literary histories) than to its literary content proper. The present article aims at asserting the main three accomplishments and shortcomings generated by this ideological option –…
Poli de producție ai romanului românesc (1933-1947)
This article studies the production of the Romanian novel published between 1933 and 1947 by deploying instruments of quantitative analysis. More precisely, based on the corpus resulted from the project The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: 1933-1947 (more than 700 digitized novels), our analysis focuses on the canonical writers and their “rivals”, the authors and their novels bypassed by the literary canon, the geographical networks of produ…
The Pound Reaction. Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature
The Pound Reaction.Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature, is not actually a Pound monograph.Better said, it is one -but not only that.Indeed, taking Pound's case as its starting point, it aims at much more than just re-reading Poundʼs poetryeven though this would have already been a major and applaudable task.But Grossʼs ambition is much higher: his study sets as a goal the examination of the Bildung of a whole cultural contex…
Geografia romanului românesc (1901-1932)
This article is part of a series that investigates through quantitative and geocritical means the corpus of novels created by the research project Astra Data Mining. The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel 1901-1932 (around 370 novels digitized). One of the many foci of our analyses delves into the internal geography of the Romanian novel as it manifests itself through geolocated metadata that reveal the spatial diversity of the corpus, concerni…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1844-1932)
The present article follows the relationship of the Romanian novelistic output between 1901 and 1932 with time and temporal distribution. Its emphasis falls on the degree of correlation between the time of publication and the time during which the events unfold for each corresponding novel, expressed through a variable coined “distance”. By making use of this variable, the temporal distribution of the novelistic corpus in the article clearly show…
Poeticile memoriei la Paul Celan și George Steiner
Both Paul Celan’s and George Steiner’s writings deal with the relationship between culture and barbarism; both originate in a terrible guilt of the survivor. In Paul Celan’s case, it is the guilt of surviving his own parents, exterminated in an internment camp in the Transnistria Governorate in 1942. In Steiner’s case, when he was 11 years old and on a vacation with his family in New York, his father decided that they would not return to Paris, b…
Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1933-1947)
From the point of view of its internal temporality, the Romanian novel between 1933 and 1947 demonstrates an overwhelming preference for negotiating the present. After 1933 the world had already gone through a World War and a world economic crisis – so that the metabolism of the present in post-1933 Romanian novels can also be explained as a post-traumatic shock, an attempt to process the traumatic information of recent history. But the Romanian …
Primul mythos de stânga al literaturii române contemporane
Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is the first leftist major narrative of Romanian literature – and the shockwaves it generated were due even more to this firm ideological option (the first such one in the history of major Romanian literary histories) than to its literary content proper. The present article aims at asserting the main three accomplishments and shortcomings generated by this ideological option –…
Geografia romanului românesc (1933-1947)
This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian novel published between 1933-1947 represents cities, towns, peripheries and villages in the fictional worlds. It asserts the democratization of the narrative universe through the novel of the periphery and discusses the birth of the touristic novel, in which characters often spend time in new areas for relaxation. It also challenges the idea of spatial atomization, since the geographical prefer…
Poli de producție ai romanului românesc (1933-1947)
This article studies the production of the Romanian novel published between 1933 and 1947 by deploying instruments of quantitative analysis. More precisely, based on the corpus resulted from the project The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: 1933-1947 (more than 700 digitized novels), our analysis focuses on the canonical writers and their “rivals”, the authors and their novels bypassed by the literary canon, the geographical networks of produ…
On 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics
This academic interview with contemporary poet Andrei Codrescu (dating July 2022) examines several contemporary meanings of 21st-century poetry and poetics, the relevance of American poetry schools that dominated the latter half of the 20th century, effects of this post-humanistic turn on the poetic discourse(s). It also whether the public condemnation of Russian culture in general is justified or not in the aftermath of the Russian aggression ag…
Introduction
This is the introduction to the volume
Patru cazuri de violență împotriva scriitorilor
The article examines some cases of violence against writers in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, and in the United States. Using as starting point Salman Rushdie’s essays from Languages of Truth, as well as his atrocious experience of the attack against him in August 2022, the article moves on to examine the examples of other writers abused not by attackers, but by governments, whose violence is more often than that of the isolated agressors. The article …
Etica memoriei și literatura. Două studii de caz
The current article applies memory ethics to literature, aiming to observe what happens to poets when their political ideology comes into radical conflict with the very instinct of freedom in which their ideology originates. It happened unfortunately too often that the ideology of the human park led in the 20th century towards genocide – or, with a post-Lemkian terminology, towards classicide, politicide, democide. What happens in these cases wit…
Tragic Poetry and the Cultural Foundation of Power
Franco Moretti posited in his 1983 book, Signs Taken for Wonders, that we live in a post-tragic and anti-tragic age in which tragic has been replaced by compromise both in fiction and in the modern lyric. The present article tries to re-examine Moretti’s conjecture in a historic period which has given up compromise and revived the tragic. In Moretti’s terms, tragic’s condition of existence involves “a civilization irreparably divided between host…
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