THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF LITERARY HISTORY. THEORETICAL DELIMITATIONS
THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF LITERARY HISTORY. THEORETICAL DELIMITATIONS

Summary/Abstract: History of literature, as a concept, has known a complex evolution since its inception. From being just a list of authors and their works, to being considered the same thing as cultural history, to having been separated completely from literary criticism and hermeneutics, it has now reached a stage where it is impossible to perceive it as a standalone concept, its very core being undeniably connected to all the other disciplines that apply to literature. This study’s object is to observe the evolution of the very concept of literary history, how it evolved both in the western culture and in the Romanian one and to bring examples of how different literary and cultural movements have shaped the wayin which we perceive this concept today. Last but not least, through a number of Romanian literary historians and critics, this study is proposing to offer some insight in the evolution of the concept of literary history in the Romanian literary world and not only.

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