Byronian Influence in Pre-Romanism and romance Cover Image

Influent a Byroniana în preromantism și romantism
Byronian Influence in Pre-Romanism and romance

Author(s): Costina Denisa Bărbuceanu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: symbiosis; complexion oppositorum; preromanticism; romanticism; Byronic hero;

Summary/Abstract: Comparative literature facilitates a thorough understanding of themes and motifsin the context of the culture of both literatures, namely what has been preserved andwhat has been borrowed, and how these themes and motifs create a uniquesymbiosis in poems charged with religious, demonic meanings, or containing acomplexio oppositorum that gives them that distinctive, masterpiece note. Thearticle proposes to identify the similarities between English and Romanian lyrics,and above all, those poems in which the echo of the English romantics resonatedmost strongly, as well as those subtleties that cannot be discovered without athorough study, on the text, where the influences are not left hard to discover,because some poems perfectly infuse with the essence of English lyricism, going asfar as the coincidence of the title: the famous Byronic hero Conrad, the dark demon,an alter ego of the great English Lord. But a thorough study is necessary and even vital where the influences are not coincidental and where we have to look atcomparative theory in relation to other social or historical principles, such as thepoetry of Shelley or Keats.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 222-234
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian