ION HELIADE RĂDULESCU AND THE 1848 GENERATION’S LITERARY PHYSIOLOGY
ION HELIADE RĂDULESCU AND THE 1848 GENERATION’S LITERARY PHYSIOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to highlight the figure of Heliade I. Rădulescu as moralist. Being formed in the spirit of classicism, I. Heliade Radulescu’s interest for the satire comes directly from the thesis of the moralizing role of the literature, a central point of his ideology. His work is clearly influenced by the thought of the moralist and the ideologue; it is subordinated to the "moralistic theses", because he believed in the curative effect of the satire. Considered the founder of the pamphlet in Romanian literature, a classic satirist, observer of manners and human types, I.H. Radulescu was a great creater of "characters" and " physiologies " of classical style.

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