THE HISTORIES OF LITERATURE BETWEEN FORM AND SUBSTANCE
THE HISTORIES OF LITERATURE BETWEEN FORM AND SUBSTANCE

Summary/Abstract: Literature and its history don’t evolve at the same speed some would say. So when literature passed through its post-modernist phase, it took literary history some time to adjust to the new realities of the literary world. After all, history is not supposed to present reality as it happens, but rather to analyze things that have already happened. How closer to the present should history, literary or otherwise, come and see, it has been the object of debate for many centuries now. But regardless of that debate, we cannot contest that literary history follows roughly the same path as its object, literature. The currents, changes, social and political pressures that literature feels, literary history will feel too, some even more acutely than its object. It’s no wonder then, that post-modernist literary history knows some major changes. Just like literature redefined itself and its forms, literary history redefined not only what it will study but also what will constitute literary history. This study reflects the way the world of literary history changed after post-modernism, but also how the world of Romanian literary history changed to respond to a dual push: the world’s new trends as well as the social, political and cultural pressures of a post-communist society.

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