Conceptul estetic maiorescian şi teoria romanului „poporan“
Maiorescu’s aesthetic concept and the theory of the „poporan“ („people-oriented“) novel
Titu Maiorescu played a decissive and determining role in the development of literature and literary thinking, a role which cannot be denied, as one cannot deny or minimize the significance of any founder. His aesthetic ideas have not remained in the field of abstract speculations, as they have influenced and shaped the artistic conscience of numerous writers. The present study aims to be a reconstruction of Maiorescu’s aesthetic ideology, comprising also one of the first poetics of the novel in Romanian literature. The theory of the „poporan“ („people-oriented“).novel has a special importance in the history of the theoretical development of the hereby discussed literary genre, despite the fact that it has been severely and rightfully contested. Even though the poetics of the novel has not evolved in the direction indicated by the critic, Maiorescu’s critical and theoretical attitude has had an essential contribution to the generation and designing of one of the most ample and intense debates in the history of Romanian literature.
Keywords: Romanian literature, Titu Maiorescu, aeshetics, poetics of the novel, „poporan“ („people-oriented“) novel
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