LITERARY CRITICISM AND GLOBALIZATION: MIRCEA MARTIN AND THE NEED FOR SYNCHRONIZATION
LITERARY CRITICISM AND GLOBALIZATION: MIRCEA MARTIN AND THE NEED FOR SYNCHRONIZATION

Summary/Abstract: The premise of this paper is that literary criticism should play an important part in the globalization of literature. Understood mainly as a social phenomenon with great economic impact, globalization affects literature thematically and stylistically, but mainly by transforming reading, from an aesthetic experience, into a form of entertainment. In this context, we are trying to outline some of the major functions that literary criticism should have today in order to maintain the aesthetic autonomy of global literature. The starting point of our approach is Mircea Martin’s essays from Singura critică, in which the critic proves an outstanding foresight, anticipating since 1983 the global trend of literature.

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