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„Lecţiile” lui Alexandru Muşina. O abordare pragmatică
Alexandru Muşina’s “Lessons”. A Pragmatic Approach

Author(s): Emilia Parpală
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: dialogism; enunciation; ethos; intertextuality; the new anthropocentrism

Summary/Abstract: At the beginnings of the 80s, Muşina was noisily differentiating himself from modernism, in the name of the “new anthropocentrism”, a concept which was in fact recycling American personism. The new type of literature replaced modernist mannerism, hermetism and intellectualism by authenticity (biographism, poetry of the everyday life), individuality (sensorialism, existential commitment) and communicability. „Lecţiile deschise ale profesorului de limba franceză A.M.” („Open House in the Classroom of the French Teacher A.M.”), together with „Hebdomadarul profesorului A.M.” („The Hebdomadal of the Teacher A.M.”) and „Lecţia de engleză” (the „English Lesson”) make up a homogeneous corpus, where the trend of biographic poetry, the fact of „commuting”, the ironic sincerity illustrate the postmodern paradigm in the version of „everyday realism”. Considering our pragmatic approach, we wish to focus on the intra-, inter- and extradiscursive levels, with the following topics: a) dialogism: heteroglossia and dedoxification (recycling of functional styles and clichés); b) the (pre)discursive ethos: autobiographic and enunciative aspects; c) intertextuality: the parodic intertextuality (Caragiale, Ionesco), the compromising of the didactic discourse. The biographism and dialogism of the „Open house in the Classroom of the French Teacher A.M.” turn this ironic corpus into a revolutionary sample of Romanian poetic postmodernism.

  • Issue Year: 12/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 267-278
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian