The Erasure of Romantic Imagination (Examples from Bulgarian Literary-Historical and Critical Texts – 1944 – 1956) Cover Image

Заличаване на романтическата фантазия (Примери от българските литературноисторически и критически текстове – 1944 – 1956)
The Erasure of Romantic Imagination (Examples from Bulgarian Literary-Historical and Critical Texts – 1944 – 1956)

Author(s): Svetla Cherpokova
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Sociology, Political history, Philology, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: imagination; romanticism; literary history; literary criticism; socialist literary criticism; Marxism

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the practices of erasing romantic imagination in the name of realism in Bulgarian literary-historical and critical texts from the period 1944 – 1956. The study focuses on an encyclopaedia, two literary histories, and a preface examining critical texts of various genres. Attention is drawn to cases of the presentation and interpretation of European Romantic literature in which one of its key concepts – the nature of imagination – is attacked and criticised from a Marxist perspective.

  • Issue Year: 69/2026
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 200-219
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian
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