Andrei C. Șerban, Conceptul de „generație” în critica și istoriografia literară internațională a secolului 20
The Concept of “Generation” in the International Literary Criticism and Historiography of the 20th Century
The 20th century marks the most prolific period concerning the theories which discuss the concept of generation and its implications in the taxonomies regarding the radiography of the past and of the present. The social generation is an important concept which involves, during the analysis of the cultural field evolution, some indispensable criteria, like the biological and the ideological aspect. This study is a brief overview of the generation concept, based on the studies and the ideas of François Mentré, José Ortega y Gasset, Auguste Comte, Karl Mannheim, Albert Thibaudet, and Julius Petersen.
Keywords: contemporary literature, literary sociology, generation, social generation, literary generation.
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