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Procedeul reevaluării şi al rescrierii în literatura franceză a secolului XX
The Revaluation and Rewriting Practices in 20th-Century French Literature

Author(s): Lidia Cotea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: French 20th Century; French literature; epistemic fracture; recurrent procedure; re-evaluation; re-writing;

Summary/Abstract: In the historic and cultural space of the French 20th Century an epistemic fracture emerged, in the ‘50s – ‘60s, when words like “death of God”, “death of the humans”, “death of the intellectuals”, pointed, in brief, to the demise of fundamental thinking. In respect to literature (but not restricting this phenomenon to it), the crisis and the wish to reconsider the previous aesthetics and subsequent ideologies surfaced much earlier and proved to be a trend that would define the entire century, a recurrent procedure, intensely harnessed by not a few personalities being that of re-evaluation and re-writing, in most unexpected forms, which were real challenges for the readers willing to understand the nuances of this widely spread phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 191-197
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian