INTERMEZZO: RECURSUL LA METODĂ: URÂTUL, DE LA BAU-BAU, LA SHREK. ȚIGANIADA, O NOUĂ CUNOAȘTERE/RECUNOAȘTERE
INTERMEZZO: THE USE OF THE METHOD: THE UGLY, FROM BAU-BAU TO SHREK. ȚIGANIADA, A NEW KNOWLEDGE / RECOGNITION

Author(s): Vasile Ionescu
Subject(s): Language studies, Studies of Literature, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Communication studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Culture, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: conceptual clarifications; dramaturgical interpretation; Tiganiada (The Gypsies; Camp)
Summary/Abstract: We have selected some revealing quotes for the evolution and involution of the aesthetics of the ugly (as Evil), always associated with the barbarian, the savage, the primitive. The selection took into account the paradigmatic moments of history and the radical changes that took place. The preoccupation of the Baroque, as a refinement of man (Christian), was the pedagogical distinction between animalitas and humanitas, between biological and cultural, the search for unity between the physical and metaphysical aspect of man, between the civilization of the word (writing) and the primitivism of orality (voice). The Baroque foreshadowed the emergence of a new model of reference to universal values and national specificity, as Freedom, even if still opposed to libertinism and anarchy, and in Enlightenment and Modernity

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