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The Affective Geography of Paris in the 19th Century Romanian Novel: Between Admiration and Aversion
2020
Based on “The Emotions of London”, a research project initiated at the Stanford Literary Lab, my article focuses on two relevant issues. First of all, I aim to demonstrate, as the “geography of emotions” experiment has already proved, that distant reading approaches and big data interpretation do not necessarily have to replace traditional methods of analysis. In other words, by using a corpus of 157 texts, I intend to outline the affective image of Paris as presented in the nineteenth century Romanian novel. Secondly, the aspect that makes my article different from “The Emotions of London” is that my purpose does not lie in analysing emotions associated with certain place-names in Paris, b…
Producing social mobility. Class and Travel in the Romanian Novel 1901-1932
2020
The present article addresses the Romanian novelistic production between 1901 and 1932 in the attempt of identifying a series of patterns regarding the protagonists’ social mobility. Starting with the most mentioned destinations throughout the novels, I analyse how and why the different social classes travel and try to determine the landmarks between which they dispute their physical presence, on the one hand, and their aspirations, on the other. On this basis, the second part of the article conducts a quantitative analysis of the major means of transport in the period – the train, the tramway, the coach/carriage, the automobile, the aeroplane, the ship, and the waggon – and attempts to pin…
Au large des grands livres. À propos de : Franco Moretti, Distant Reading, Verso
2015
International audience; Théoricien incontournable de la littérature, Franco Moretti rassemble dans un livre non encore traduit en français dix articles prônant une révolution méthodologique des études littéraires. Plutôt que de lire, Moretti propose d’expérimenter avec la littérature.
La ricezione di Leonardo Sciascia. Il viaggio dell'opera nello spazio e nel tempo attraverso la collezione Leonardo Sciascia - recensioni
2020
In un ambito, come quello degli studi sciasciani, inevitabilmente imperniato sulla relazione tra scrittura e memoria intesa come strumento di conoscenza del reale e di svelamento delle «storture», urge ricercare un’osservazione della produzione che tenga primariamente in considerazione il lettore in quanto principale destinatario dell’intenzione autoriale. La complessità di restituzione della fortuna di Leonardo Sciascia è cagionata non solo dai molteplici volti e piani che concorrono a delinearne la figura (intellettuale, letterato, politico, collaboratore editoriale) e l’opera (favolistica, poetica, saggistica, narrativa, pamphlettistica, romanzesca, giallistica, documentaria), ma anche d…