VIRGIL NEMOIANU – THE CALM OF RATIONALITY
VIRGIL NEMOIANU – THE CALM OF RATIONALITY

Summary/Abstract: Virgil Nemoianu is undoubtedly one of the outstanding personalities of the Romanian literary critique after the Second War. It is also an authority in the field of comparatism and literary theory. The concept of Biedermeier Romantism is, for example, unremitting in historical-literary investigations that analyze the evolution of romantic current. Equally fecund for the evolution of literary research are Nemoianu's reflections on “secondary theory”. Attracted by the controversial issues of the reception of literature, Virgil Nemoianu brilliantly illustrated comparative literature as a discipline of essential connections and analogies between literature and culture, from a historical perspective, in a claim that, first of all, it is from a fundamental need rationality, clarity and truth of the critical spirit.

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