OPERA LUI V. NEMOIANU
THE WORK OF V. NEMOIANU

Summary/Abstract: In this critical essay I have been trying to describe and comprehend the work of a famous and praised Romanian-American scholar, the emerittus and appointed distinguished professor of Washington Catholic University, Virgil Nemoianu. I have divided on purpose the critical essay in two different parts, separating The Romanian and American contributions, and I have analysed his Romanian works and American works separately, trying to discover the core thesis of this texts. In the second part I have been focused on three different studies, The Taming of Romanticism, A Theory of the Secondary and Micro-Armonia, stressing on the idea that all of them had a considerably impact on his Romanian colleagues, for example taking into account the fact that his anthology The Hospitable Canon, he has introduced after 1990 in his Romanian language publishing the literary term “canon” in an imaginary Romanian critic terms dictionary. The term „canon” has been used for example by Professor N.Manolescu in his Critical History of Romanian Literature. Professor V.Nemoianu has started recently to publish his entire work in a huge critical edition, translating all his American studies into Romanian, at Spandugino Publishing House. He has published his works chronologically, starting with the studies he had published before leaving his country, and he continued with the new editions of his most praised works on Romanticism, Idilic literature, and the theory of the secondary at works of Michel Serres, Lucian Blaga and René Girard, postmodernism, different essays on religion and Romanian liberalism, a monograph on the poetry of reknown Romanian poet Ștefan Augustin Doinaș, his travel diaries and autobiographical memoirs, etc. If somebody will assume this huge task of analysis all these facettes of his work should take into account the interdisciplinarity of his approaches, Virgil Nemoianu’s work has been influenced by European Illuminism, but he must start with his formation of an English literature professor and who has later has become a World Literature and Compared Literature, and somebody must stress on the complexity of these texts.

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