Who’s afraid of Mihai Iovănel? Regimes of Relevance and New Literary Historiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11416455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ovio Olaru (0000-0001-6742-2564, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 32-44 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transilvania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0255-0539 • E-ISSN: 3061-2217 |
| Publisher | ASTRA National Museum Complex (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.51391/trva.2021.07-08.04 |
| OpenAlex | W3210845731 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
The present article addresses Mihai Iovănel’s recently published History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 while pursuing a series of similarities with other contributions to postcommunist national literatures in the Central and Eastern European cultural space, on the one hand, and with previous ways of understanding the concept of literary history, on the other. The article argues that Iovănel’s History is one of the first to assess the importance of the social in the production, study, and national, as well as transnational dissemination of Romanian literature, an emphasis without which the study of literary phenomena risks falling into the blindness of aesthetic autonomy, whose shortcomings are well documented in the book. Lastly, I will argue that Iovănel unwillingly describes several of the most notable shifts in the “regimes of relevance” (Galin Tihanov) that literature has undergone from the communist period to contemporary times
Archaeology · Art · Autonomy · Blindness · Communism · Historiography · History of literature · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Relevance (law · Romanian · Sociology · Comparative and World Literature · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Law · Philosophy
Ruling Ideas
A Tragic One-Way Ticket to Universality
Aftershock
Failed States’ and ‘State Failure’
The politics of literary historiography
A critique of peripheral capitalism
Cvasi în direct
Literary Historiography as Event
Canonul occidental din Istoria literaturii române contemporane
Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga
Conceptul lovinescian de „intelectualizare” a literaturii față cu ipoteza postbelică a țăranului „intelectualizat”
Primul mythos de stânga al literaturii române contemporane
Când totul e pierdut, ai grijă să cazi cu stil. Istoria lui Iovănel
Regimuri de relevanță, puncte de rezistență
Beyond the 'failed state
The Fallacy of the 'Failed State
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |