Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga: o istorie New Left a literaturii române contemporane

Baghiu, Ștefan

doi:10.51391/trva.2021.07-08.09

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“…Iată conexiunea peste timp cu eforturile teoretice ale lui Lovinescu: Iovănel are, de fapt, chiar dacă printr-o opțiune ideologică și metodologică diferită, aceeași obsesieavatarurile sincronizării și diferențierii." (Baghiu 2021).…”

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“…Ceva mai rezervat, Paul Cernat o consideră "un volum inconturnabil, irezistibil, dar relevant în mai mare măsură pentru raza de acțiune și opțiunile ideologice ale autorului decât pentru ansamblul literaturii române postdecembriste, cu deschideri importante, dar ale cărui reușite sunt asigurate, în mare parte, de calitățile critice și istorico-literare tradiționaleˮ (Cernat 2021). Din cealaltă perspectivă ideologică, Victor Cobuz o consideră "un punct de cotitură în istoriografia literară românească, o lucrare reprezentativă pentru toate încercările de înnoire a cercetării literare autohtone din ultimul deceniuˮ (Cobuz 2021), iar Ștefan Baghiu conchide că, "oricât de multe obiecții ar aduce cineva instrumentului propus de Mihai Iovănel, adevărul este că este deocamdată singura panoramă viabilă a literaturii postcomunisteˮ (Baghiu 2021). Și, într-adevăr, cu toată parțialitatea (nu părtinirea) ce o caracterizează, Istoria... lui Iovănel cartografiază coerent, într-o cheie interpretativă actuală, literatura actuală.…”

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A History of Romanian Contemporary Literature: Impact and Reception

Gheo¹

2022

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At the beginning of 2021, Mihai Iovănel published Istoria literaturii române contemporane – 1990-2020, the first Romanian history of literature that scrutinizes the post-communist period. Another novelty brought by this book is that it proposes an ideological approach to the literary field, with a strong (post)Marxist bias, in accordance and synchronicity with the global trend in the humanistic field, but not very popular in the Romanian cultural space. No wonder it was, perhaps, the most commented upon literary study of the past years, and most of the reviewers and critics focused on this controversial approach towards contemporary literature, favouring or rejecting its validity. This paper tries to establish the influence of Iovănelʼs ideological approach on the interpretation of contemporary literature and the aesthetic validity of his work. At the same time, it deals with the impact this book had in academic and literary circles, surveying the recent opinions and judgments on the book and the interplay of ideological/aesthetic arguments of the reviewers. The analysis shows that, more often than not, the reviewersʼ ideological positioning is relevant and influential upon their judgments, even if they manage to preserve their scientific objectivity. The paper also stresses the importance of this pioneering work and the shift in perspective it proposes, together with its limits (sometimes accepted by the author), and it establishes its relevance as a starting point for similar studies in the future.

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A History of Romanian Contemporary Literature: Impact and Reception

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2022

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L’ideologie en perspective : la demarche historique de Mihai Iovănel

Socaci¹

2022

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"Ideology in Perspective – Mihai Iovănel’s Historical Approach. The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature by Mihai Iovănel brings back into question the present of Romanian literature both in terms of content and methods of analysis. In the present paper, Socaci dwells on the ambivalence between a materialist view and a critical one in the traditional sense—that is, one whose main function is to judge—with the aim of showing the limits of the socioanalysis that the author proposes. Considering the critic as a key player in the literary field and whose positioning is subject to complex schemes of perception, Socaci analyses the implications of the assumed but unquestioned subjectivity in the construction of the proposed overview, with an emphasis on the symbolic violence manifested by insufficient argumentation or by exclusion. Socaci's approach values concepts proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and other sociologists of literature, thus indicating that the contradictory dispositions of the critic work together to produce a methodologically eclectic work, as it proposes an analysis of external factors, but not of the subject placed in the role of the analyst. However, the scholastic discourse that does not question the perspective from which it is constructed fortunately contributes to the actualization of the literary present, by establishing a rapport of retroactive historicity (Jérôme David), in which novels (Mara) or literary postures (Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Ibrăileanu) are legitimized by their role as precursors of some critical directions and artistic movements present in Iovănel’s contemporaneity. Thus, the proposed overview is in the service of a structural, sociologically aware analysis, and can therefore be considered a founding block in the necessary accumulations towards a national grand récit, similar to the one proposed by Pierre Bourdieu in Les Règles de l’art. Keywords: literary history, sociology, literary postures, symbolic violence, subjectivity"

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Ambivalences of a Tour de Force: “Istoria Literaturii Române Contemporane” as Critique and as Literature

Matei¹

2022

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"Ambivalences of a Tour de Force: Istoria Literaturii Române Contemporane as Critique and as Literature. This essay starts from hypothesizing a double dimension of Mihai Iovănel’s History: critical and literary (or, as Matei says, poetic). The idea of such an interpretation is given by Iovănel’s quoting a late text by Louis Althusser, in which the French philosopher defines the figure of an “aleatory materialist,” as opposed to a “dialectical” materialist. While critics have already discussed the critical dimension of Iovănel’s project, an aspect Matei also examines in the last part of his contribution, less has been said, he maintains, about the History as a literary project, as “writing.” Matei thus attends to the qualities and shortcomings of Iovănel’s project, which stem, he claims, from the aforementioned double dimension of the History. Keywords: Mihai Iovănel, poetics of literary history, aleatory materialism, contemporary Romanian literature"

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Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga: o istorie New Left a literaturii române contemporane

Cited by 4 publications

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A History of Romanian Contemporary Literature: Impact and Reception

A History of Romanian Contemporary Literature: Impact and Reception

L’ideologie en perspective : la demarche historique de Mihai Iovănel

Ambivalences of a Tour de Force: “Istoria Literaturii Române Contemporane” as Critique and as Literature

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