Christian Moraru
Biographic Data
| ID | 967228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Moraru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Moraru |
| SIGNATURE | MORARU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ansatzpunkt Transylvania: Worldbuilding Method and Method-Building World in Hugo Meltzl and the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum Project
The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory
Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth. The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory examines what “world” means and what it accomplishes in different zones of academic study. The contributors raise questions such as: What happens when “world” is appended…
Objecthood, Flat Form, Political Formalism: OOO and Ben Lerner’s Hatred of Poetry
This is a largely theoretical essay that, in conversation with Graham Harman’s energetic view of objects and Ben Lerner’s idiosyncratic theory of poetry, articulates the basic tenets of a “flat aesthetics” and then moves on to tease out this aesthetics’ ramifications in terms of form, reading thereof, and politics. When the object’s ontological dignity is acknowledged, as flat ontology does, and further, when literature too is dealt with as an ob…
Literary Historiography as Event: Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020
In his essay, Moraru contends that Mihai Iovănel’s 2021 History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is a breakthrough in Romanian literary historiography and criticism overall. According to Moraru, the History revisits radically the terms of the Romantic contract that, in Romania and elsewhere, has typically been underwriting modern criticism. A form of critical realism and an exemplar of postmillennial Romanian literary and cultural s…
“The World Has Become Self-Refering”: Don DeLillo’s “The Names” and the Aesthetic of the Contemporary
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania
The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
The Planetary Turn
A groundbreaking collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet?as territory, sociopolitical arena, space of interaction for life, and artistic theme?is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which artists picture themselves and their work. In an introduction that comprehensively defines the planetary model of art, culture, and cultural-aesthetic…
Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire on Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War
To Eat Is a Compromise: Theory, Identity, and Dietary Politics after Kafka
La faim, c'est moi- hunger is me- confesses Amelie Nothomb's heroine in Biographie de la faim (The Biography of Hunger) (22). A strange statement, of course, but no stranger than the Flaubertian dictum it evokes. So what exactly does Nothomb acknowledge here? More to the point: what does it mean to suspect that one's identity gels around hunger (20), that, more generally, being is insatiable, grounded by a fundamental and ever-replenished insuffi…
Frumoasele strÇine by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu
through the pregnancy. Dejected, she is sentto spas on themainland for a miraculous cure. There, she finds herselfcured in more ways thanone. Deprived of the "principal thing"and leftbelieving thatGod does notwanthertoknowlove,she accepts who she is and the beautifulmainland ,withitshanginggardens and lush, green terraces.Yet all her lifeshe has been told she is "like someone fromtheland of the moon." Considered abnormal and incapableofhavingthis…
The Genomic Imperative: Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island
The Genomic Imperative” focuses on French writer Michel Houellebecq's 2005 dystopia The Possibility of an Island (La possibilité d'une île). In its introduction, the essay links Houellebecq's work to the recent tradition of postmodern fiction (on the one hand) and to modern philosophies of the “human” (on the other). The introduction is followed by an analysis of the cultural-existential predicament of Houellebecq's “neohuman” world with particul…
The Other, the Namesake: Cosmopolitan Onomastics in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life
References Campbell, Mike. “Jiro Behind the Name: The Etymolog]/ and History of First Names. http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?na me=jiro (accessed March 8, 2007). Campbell, Mike. “Thomas.” Behind the Name: The Etymology and History of First Names. http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?na me=thomas (accessed March 8, 2007). Cowart, David. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,…
Globalia
Book Review| January 01 2006 Globalia GlobaliaRufin, Jean-Christophe Christian Moraru Christian Moraru Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (1): 248–254. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718812 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christian Moraru; Globalia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2006; 17 (1): 248–254. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718812 Download citation file: Zot…
The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, and: The Fragile Absolute, or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, and: Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Di…
Reviewed by: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, and: The Fragile Absolute or, Why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for?, and: Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, and: Cosmopolitanism Christian Moraru Slavoj Zizek. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. London and New York: Verso, 2000. vi + 409 pp.; Slavoj Zizek. The Fragile Absolute or, Why is the Chri…
We Embraced Each Other by Our Names”: Levinas, Derrida, and the Ethics of Naming
Emmanuel Levinas’ and Jacques Derrida’ s theories of names and naming are discussed in a context that casts light upon the complex relationships among names and the named on the one hand, and onomastics and other fields and discourses on the other. Such other fields are anthropology, (cultural) history, politics, and ethics. Levinas’ phenomenological view of naming and Derrida's use of Levinas in a markedly “poststructuralist” analysis both stres…
The Romantic Theory of the Novel: Genre and Reflection in Cervantes, Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, and Kafka
MLN - Volume 113, Number 5, December 1998 (Comparative Literature Issue)
The Aesthetic Contract. Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity
Reading the Onomastic Text: ‘The Politics of the Proper Name’ in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Critics of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon have concentrated on names' “meanings” in the novel and their role in defining various characters. The narrative implications of names, however, have been largely ignored. I address the relationship between naming and fictionality in the novel and regard the text as a maze of legends, tales, and histories of names and naming, where the main characters' search for these forgotten stories is a quest for id…
Exploring Names: Notes on Onomastics and Fictionality in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
The relationships between names and the literary imagination in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past are considered. In Remembrance, names are explored and interpreted by Proust, and the very process of this “deciphering” unfolds spectacular fictional worlds. Names are endowed with a “geological” dimension which the narrator scrutinizes. Starting from the external, phonetic aspect of proper names, he projects, spins off an entire universe. …
Literary Historiography as Event: Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020
In his essay, Moraru contends that Mihai Iovănel’s 2021 History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is a breakthrough in Romanian literary historiography and criticism overall. According to Moraru, the History revisits radically the terms of the Romantic contract that, in Romania and elsewhere, has typically been underwriting modern criticism. A form of critical realism and an exemplar of postmillennial Romanian literary and cultural s…
We Embraced Each Other by Our Names”: Levinas, Derrida, and the Ethics of Naming
Emmanuel Levinas’ and Jacques Derrida’ s theories of names and naming are discussed in a context that casts light upon the complex relationships among names and the named on the one hand, and onomastics and other fields and discourses on the other. Such other fields are anthropology, (cultural) history, politics, and ethics. Levinas’ phenomenological view of naming and Derrida's use of Levinas in a markedly “poststructuralist” analysis both stres…
The Other, the Namesake: Cosmopolitan Onomastics in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life
References Campbell, Mike. “Jiro Behind the Name: The Etymolog]/ and History of First Names. http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?na me=jiro (accessed March 8, 2007). Campbell, Mike. “Thomas.” Behind the Name: The Etymology and History of First Names. http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?na me=thomas (accessed March 8, 2007). Cowart, David. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,…
Exploring Names: Notes on Onomastics and Fictionality in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
The relationships between names and the literary imagination in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past are considered. In Remembrance, names are explored and interpreted by Proust, and the very process of this “deciphering” unfolds spectacular fictional worlds. Names are endowed with a “geological” dimension which the narrator scrutinizes. Starting from the external, phonetic aspect of proper names, he projects, spins off an entire universe. …
Reading the Onomastic Text: ‘The Politics of the Proper Name’ in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Critics of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon have concentrated on names' “meanings” in the novel and their role in defining various characters. The narrative implications of names, however, have been largely ignored. I address the relationship between naming and fictionality in the novel and regard the text as a maze of legends, tales, and histories of names and naming, where the main characters' search for these forgotten stories is a quest for id…
The Romantic Theory of the Novel: Genre and Reflection in Cervantes, Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, and Kafka
MLN - Volume 113, Number 5, December 1998 (Comparative Literature Issue)
The Aesthetic Contract. Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity
We Embraced Each Other by Our Names”: Levinas, Derrida, and the Ethics of Naming
Emmanuel Levinas’ and Jacques Derrida’ s theories of names and naming are discussed in a context that casts light upon the complex relationships among names and the named on the one hand, and onomastics and other fields and discourses on the other. Such other fields are anthropology, (cultural) history, politics, and ethics. Levinas’ phenomenological view of naming and Derrida's use of Levinas in a markedly “poststructuralist” analysis both stres…
The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, and: The Fragile Absolute, or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, and: Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Di…
Reviewed by: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, and: The Fragile Absolute or, Why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for?, and: Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, and: Cosmopolitanism Christian Moraru Slavoj Zizek. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. London and New York: Verso, 2000. vi + 409 pp.; Slavoj Zizek. The Fragile Absolute or, Why is the Chri…
Globalia
Book Review| January 01 2006 Globalia GlobaliaRufin, Jean-Christophe Christian Moraru Christian Moraru Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (1): 248–254. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718812 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christian Moraru; Globalia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2006; 17 (1): 248–254. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718812 Download citation file: Zot…
The Other, the Namesake: Cosmopolitan Onomastics in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life
References Campbell, Mike. “Jiro Behind the Name: The Etymolog]/ and History of First Names. http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?na me=jiro (accessed March 8, 2007). Campbell, Mike. “Thomas.” Behind the Name: The Etymology and History of First Names. http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?na me=thomas (accessed March 8, 2007). Cowart, David. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,…
The Genomic Imperative: Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island
The Genomic Imperative” focuses on French writer Michel Houellebecq's 2005 dystopia The Possibility of an Island (La possibilité d'une île). In its introduction, the essay links Houellebecq's work to the recent tradition of postmodern fiction (on the one hand) and to modern philosophies of the “human” (on the other). The introduction is followed by an analysis of the cultural-existential predicament of Houellebecq's “neohuman” world with particul…
To Eat Is a Compromise: Theory, Identity, and Dietary Politics after Kafka
La faim, c'est moi- hunger is me- confesses Amelie Nothomb's heroine in Biographie de la faim (The Biography of Hunger) (22). A strange statement, of course, but no stranger than the Flaubertian dictum it evokes. So what exactly does Nothomb acknowledge here? More to the point: what does it mean to suspect that one's identity gels around hunger (20), that, more generally, being is insatiable, grounded by a fundamental and ever-replenished insuffi…
Frumoasele strÇine by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu
through the pregnancy. Dejected, she is sentto spas on themainland for a miraculous cure. There, she finds herselfcured in more ways thanone. Deprived of the "principal thing"and leftbelieving thatGod does notwanthertoknowlove,she accepts who she is and the beautifulmainland ,withitshanginggardens and lush, green terraces.Yet all her lifeshe has been told she is "like someone fromtheland of the moon." Considered abnormal and incapableofhavingthis…
Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire on Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War
The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
The Planetary Turn
A groundbreaking collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet?as territory, sociopolitical arena, space of interaction for life, and artistic theme?is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which artists picture themselves and their work. In an introduction that comprehensively defines the planetary model of art, culture, and cultural-aesthetic…
“The World Has Become Self-Refering”: Don DeLillo’s “The Names” and the Aesthetic of the Contemporary
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania
Objecthood, Flat Form, Political Formalism: OOO and Ben Lerner’s Hatred of Poetry
This is a largely theoretical essay that, in conversation with Graham Harman’s energetic view of objects and Ben Lerner’s idiosyncratic theory of poetry, articulates the basic tenets of a “flat aesthetics” and then moves on to tease out this aesthetics’ ramifications in terms of form, reading thereof, and politics. When the object’s ontological dignity is acknowledged, as flat ontology does, and further, when literature too is dealt with as an ob…
Literary Historiography as Event: Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020
In his essay, Moraru contends that Mihai Iovănel’s 2021 History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is a breakthrough in Romanian literary historiography and criticism overall. According to Moraru, the History revisits radically the terms of the Romantic contract that, in Romania and elsewhere, has typically been underwriting modern criticism. A form of critical realism and an exemplar of postmillennial Romanian literary and cultural s…
The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory
Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth. The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory examines what “world” means and what it accomplishes in different zones of academic study. The contributors raise questions such as: What happens when “world” is appended…
Ansatzpunkt Transylvania: Worldbuilding Method and Method-Building World in Hugo Meltzl and the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum Project
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