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SEDITIOUS MODERNISM(S) IN STOUT DICTATORSHIPS (TWO CUNNING FICTIONAL STRATEGIES)

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Spiridon M.
World Literature Studies
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2013
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vol. 5 (22)
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issue 4
3 – 10
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This article focuses on two masterpieces of Russian modernism that foreground Moscow and Petersburg, two urban spaces that are well-rooted in collective and individual local consciousness: Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakov and Petersburg by Andrei Bely. Both cities are portrayed in the turbulent political context of early 20th century as real borders between the European civilization on the one hand and the worst barbarity on the other. The author ś aim is to compare the strategies of both key representatives of Russian modernism whose approaches to the same task is rather different. They project dystopic worlds whose inhabitants have lost faith in art, religion and science and where history is only a bad dream, from which the individual can wake up no longer. The article identifies concepts used to explore these urban spaces, emphasizing the auto-referential style of both authors.
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GLASS BEAD GAMES: MATEI CALINESCU AND THE SECRET LIFE OF CONCEPTS

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Spiridon M.
World Literature Studies
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2015
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vol. 7 (24)
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issue 2
15 – 22
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This paper looks at Matei Calinescu ś theoretical output, with a view to identifying a common denominator: his keen interest in conceptual tools as hypothetical constructs, as well as in their self-reflective potential. The ways in which Calinescu defines and uses the concepts of modernity, postmodernity and rereading pertain to an area which is always of key importance in intellectual discourses: the relationship between trans-historic, systematic conceptualization, on the one hand, and historical experience on the other. As well as the nominalist appeal of the author, his work also betrays his concern with the pressure exerted on art by various historical contexts. Specifically, the Romanian-born theorist boldly asserts that our aesthetic postulate and hypotheses are strongly shaped by the particular intellectual discourse of a specific era rather than by the particular creative strategies of that time.
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