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Andrei Terian

Der Durchbruch des Intellektualismus im Rezeptionsprozess der Lyrik von George Coșbuc

Abstract: The present study attempts to test an older personal thesis and to develop a newer hypothesis. The older thesis was put forth in a chapter of the volume Critica de export (Export Criticism) and refers to the fact that, in the process of a writer’s reception, there is a frequent (and somewhat organic) tendency of the sequence of critical representations to be aligned according to the categorial outline natural – artificial – bookish. In the present case, I will test the chronological development of these three categories throughout the reception of Romanian poet George Coșbuc’s work. On the other hand, the newer hypothesis regards the fact that a bookish representation of a certain writer’s work cannot assert itself in the absence of detailed research related to the intertextual “bedrock” of that work. I dub this process the “institutionalization of the bookish”—as the legitimate, indeed canonical object or direction of academic enquiry—, and the idea I advocate in the present study is that, in Coșbuc’s case, this phenomenon emerged primarily due to the academic contribution of researchers from the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Maria Sass and Radu Drăgulescu in particular.

Keywords: Romanian literature, George Coșbuc, natural, artificial, bookish, Maria Sass, Radu Drăgulescu

Die nachfolgenden Ausführungen greifen nicht nur eine persönliche These auf, sie möchten auch eine neue Hypothese überprüfen....