THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE NEW HISTORICISM AND OF THE POSTMODERNIST POETICS IN ROMULUS RUSAN'S AND JEAN BAUDILLARD'S AMERICAN MEMORIALIST WRITINGS
THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE NEW HISTORICISM AND OF THE POSTMODERNIST POETICS IN ROMULUS RUSAN'S AND JEAN BAUDILLARD'S AMERICAN MEMORIALIST WRITINGS

Summary/Abstract: The post-bellum literary criticism has acquired new research directions through the studies of theoreticians who created the psycho-analyst and feminist deconstructionist criticism, the New Historicism and the post-modernist poetics. The theoretical references of the paper lie in the New Historicism from Linda Hutchinson's perspective, in some aspects of the post-modernist poetics as seen by Liviu Petrescu and Mircea Cărtărescu, and in notions of hyper-reality, simulacra and simulation in Jean Baudrillard philosophy. The methods that were used are the comparative analysis of some late 20th century literary texts and the word and syntagm linguistic frequency analysis using word counter application. Some fragments from Romulus Rusan's Greyhound America memorialist travel journal will be approached in intertextual, historical and multi-disciplinal ways, and some articles from 1977 Flacăra magazine articles will be mentioned as well. The goal is to find a contemporary meaning to the political and ideological senses of the past and to understand how a certain political, social and cultural context have influenced the production of a literary work and how such work's reception will be differ subject to each generation's cognitive horizon.

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