Le système littéraire de la Romania européenne : une analyse métacritique au prisme de la criticométrie
The European Romania Literary System: a Metacritical Analysis Through the Lens of Criticometrics

Summary/Abstract: Conceptually, this research arises at the intersection of systems theory, scientometrics, and literary studies. From the methodological viewpoint, we introduce criticometrics, an innovative approach that aims at empirically studying national and continental literatures, as well as the relations between them. Thus, through the exploitation of bibliographic databases, particularly the Modern Language Association International Bibliography, we compile and analyze the metadata of the critical publications about the literatures that constitute the European Romania. This sample, that cumulates over 430,000 references from 1884 to 2016, allowed us to map these national literatures and to elaborate chronological, geopolitical, and linguistic indicators. Then, we studied the critical bibliography about the main figures of these national literatures, in order to identify their level of interaction. All these observations, that have become available as a result of the emergence of the digital era, allow us to better understand the interferences and contrasts that characterize the literary system of the European Romania.

• Details
• Contents