Tudor Arghezi and N. D. Cocea – Famous Pamphleteers of Romanian Journalism
Tudor Arghezi and N. D. Cocea – Famous Pamphleteers of Romanian Journalism

Summary/Abstract: Having its origin in Antiquity (Aristophanes, ancient orators), the pamphlet is a border- genre. Paradoxically, it is not acknowledged even by the authors of journalism textbooks as belonging to their specific field. The pamphlet pictures the meddling of literature, social context and individual thinking. The present contribution focuses on different kinds of definitions in world literature and Romanian literature as well. The principal aims of this paper is to highlight the means used to render the epoch from a historical, social and political point of view. The journalistic pamphlets have definitely literary bonds especially when Tudor Arghezi and N. D. Cocea are representatives. Their authors act for the new literary and political Romanian consciousness at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. One of the main intents is to discuss upon text and pre-text (several empiric events re-designed in the discourse). The event is presented as an effect of the discursive force. The text evaluates the events due to moral constraints of the authors and true specific social inferences. The authors′ personalities and visions are also mirrored in vocabulary, figures of speech and the syntactic topics. They are virulent opponents of art as an art aesthetic formula. Due to these two already mentioned writers, the pamphlet is devoted to a literary genre, winning the right of being a constant presence in the Romanian literature. It has also preserved its artistic actuality re-emerging with new valences and it has an irrefutable documentary value.

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