Exoticul citadin si cultural si cultural italian in literatura romana memorialistica a secolului al XIX. Jurnalul de calatorie in italia al lui V. A
Italian cultural and city exotism in 19-th century romanian memorialistic literature

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at offering an argumentation for a direction of research pertaining to a larger study frame, defined at the intersection of two cultural areas, the Romanian and the Italian ones , during the 19-th century: the object of analysis is represented by Italy's status as a historical, geographical and cultural space in the broader horizon of Romanian men of letters of the epoch with a focus on the writer V. Alecsandri. Looking into his posthumous Travel Journal.... as a case study, we shall attempt an argumentation for the presence of Italian exoticism.

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