Istorii literare româneşti între tradiţie şi modernitate
Romanian Literary Histories between Tradition and Modernity

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to analyze Romanian literary histories, published after 1990, from different perspectives: tradition and canon and modernity and multiple ‘canons’. In the last two decades there has been a notable effort made by Romanian historians to present a literary history as accurate as possible through various interpretations. This analysis will show how the literary histories have influenced the development of the genre in Romania as well as to illustrate the crisis that these productions seem to go through nowadays at a conceptual level. This genre has evolved based on tradition and canon to a modern perspective on the contemporary literary productions. The traditional literary histories, claiming a reccurent model in G. Calinescu, have an extensive narrative structure, aiming to be a representation of a totality and trying to give the impression that they can cover, present and interpret almost all literary productions of a certain period (usually from origins to present). The modern literary histories, having an illustrative historian in N. Manolescu, might have a compressed narrative structure but they have innovative principles of writing like interpretation and fragmentation, a plurarity of views, with a clear view of the inner and the outer of multiculturalism of literatures and they can focus on a smaller period, on themes or motifs, even on literary eccentricities. We have made a critical – historical analysis of the most important literary histories appeared after 1990 where we have illustrated what is a possible future of this kind of productions in the next few years. Literary histories will not disappear because there will always be a need of organizing the literary productions on different criteria. The widen concept of literary history will create an overture of a synchronization with international literary history.

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