THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE BETWEEN DIACHRONY AND AXIOLOGY
THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE BETWEEN DIACHRONY AND AXIOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The history of literature includes a passion for documentation, a vocation for synthesis, placing the work in a historical context, establishing, as appropriate, sources, influences and affiliations, analytical spirit, sense of nuance, thorough and careful exploration of literary works representative of a certain periods. We have tried to illustrate, in this study, two moments in the evolution of Romanian literary history through Nicolae Manolescu and Cornel Ungureanu, who prove, through their books, that the history of literature exceeds, today, in its manifestations, the purely factual approach, documentary or biographical interest, integrating in the space of a broader, anthropological approach, by reconfiguring the historical, cultural, biographical premises of the literary text, but also by framing the work in the context of a certain time, the evolution of science, philosophy, psychology or sociology. In other words, a history of literature is, or must be, first of all, a history of literary forms, evaluated from the perspective of their value, forms that are constantly evolving.

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