THE LITERARY CRITIC’S NEW WAYS
THE LITERARY CRITIC`s NEW WAYS

Summary/Abstract: This review focuses on the first volume of the „Encyclopaedia of Imaginaries in Romania”, subtitled „Literary Imaginary”, edited under the coordination of Professor Corin Braga. The two chapters of the volume are prefaced by a study displaying the premises from which this research project started and the methodology used, centred on the concepts of semantic pool and constellation of symbolic images. The distinctions between the semantic basin and literary history, between the semantic basin and the literary current, between the constellation of images and thematic literary criticism create a matrix of salient elements. These theoretical delimitations, which are visible in the twenty chapters, provide a new vision of the literary critic and his role in shaping collective identity.

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