Cercul Literar de la Sibiu: câteva perspective asupra formei tragice
Dragoș VARGA
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Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Letters and Arts
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dragos.varga@ulbsibiu.ro
11-12
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Studii literare
The Sibiu Literary Circle: Some Perspectives on Tragic Form
Abstract: The present article focuses on the only literary Romanian group (Sibiu Literary Circle) that aims to rehabilitate tragedy as a literary genre, combining two important dimensions: the Aristotelian perspective, proposing the resurrection of the genre as such, and the German one, which requires a rather philosophical approach by detaching the concept of the tragic from the sphere of the theatrical performance. The article leans especially on the theories about the tragic of Ștefan Aug. Doinaș, Nicolae Balotă, I. Negoițescu and Radu Stanca, insisting on Radu Stanca’s essay, Tragedy and Its Scenic Modality from a Contemporary Perspective.
Keywords: tragedy, tragic form, Sibiu Literary Circle, Radu Stanca, I. Negoițescu
Acknowledgement: This work was funded by the EU’s NextGenerationEU instrument through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Romania – Pillar III-C9-I8, managed by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, within the project entitled Measuring Tragedy: Geographical Diffusion, Comparative Morphology, and Computational Analysis of European Tragic Form (METRA), contract no. 760249/28.12.2023, code CF 163/31.07.2023.
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