MAPPING EMOTIONS IN THE ROMANIAN EROTIC NOVEL OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD. CANONICAL AFFECT AND POPULAR SENSIBILITY
MAPPING EMOTIONS IN THE ROMANIAN EROTIC NOVEL OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD. CANONICAL AFFECT AND POPULAR SENSIBILITY

Summary/Abstract: This proposal aims to investigate the emotions, affects and sensibilities typical to the erotic novel of the Romanian literature between the World Wars, as revealed when adopting a quantitative viewpoint. By means of a comparative type of approach, the paper addresses both novels that have entered what we call a canonical selection and novels that are considered to belong to minor literature, but which have gained popularity over the years. The main purpose of this research is to reveal, through big data analysis, the successful networks of emotions that have contributed to the value of certain novels or literary formulas, but also the shortcomings of those networks that have failed to provide a functional affective pattern for the erotic narratives. As for the selection process, the paper analyzes the novels of Camil Petrescu, Anton Holban, Gib Mihăescu and Garabet Ibrăileanu, since they each successfully represent their subgenres. By analyzing them with Morettian methods, the research seeks to reveal the inner workings of the “winning” sensibilities, thereby testing the viability of the Romanian critical discourse that has placed these novels on different axiological levels.

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