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MATEIU I. CARAGIALE: „STRANIETATE” SI CANONICITATE
Mateiu I. Caragiale: Strangeness and Canonical Value

Author(s): Laurenţiu Hanganu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Petru Maior
Keywords: modernism; Western canon; strangeness; aestheticism

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses Mateiu I. Caragiale’s work in the light of the modern relationship between strangeness and beauty, which, pointed out by Edgar Allan Poe (‘there is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion’), and, later, Baudelaire (‘Le Beau este toujours bizarre’), was made into a critical principle by Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon. Taking into account the modern equivalence between eccentricity and literary value, the writing of Mateiu Caragiale reveals the fundaments of its power of fascination and establishes its relevance as a turning point for the Romanian literature as an aesthetic phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 136-154
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Romanian
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