Mobile Frontiers: Instrumentations of Paraliterature in Modern Romanian Literature (1878–2018)
Mobile Frontiers: Instrumentations of Paraliterature in Modern Romanian Literature (1878–2018)

Summary/Abstract: The present essay proposes a periodization of Romanian popular fiction into four stages, from the perspective of its interaction with mainstream (meta)literature. It attempts to show how, on the one hand, paraliterature has influenced mainstream literature, but also how the latter has managed this influence according to its own theoretical and ideological pre-settings. Thus, the critics who held authoritative positions at different times were more tolerant of accepting certain genres like crime fiction or science fiction than they were with romance literature, thus evincing a deep gender bias, which needs to be taken into consideration in the current attempts at reforming the limitations which affect the way we read, understand and valorize literature.

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