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ROMANIAN STUDIES: LITERATURE

ROMANIAN STUDIES: LITERATURE Romanian Studies LITERATURE By VANESSA L. DAVIES, Director, Language and Communication Centre, King's College London I. GENERAL The quantity of published criticism remains relatively low for the year covered: most publishers are concentrating their efforts towards the publication of primary sources which have been unavailable in recent years. GENERAL CRITICISM AND LITERARY TRENDS; LITERARY HISTORY. Mitu Grosu, La Litterature roumaine au moyen-age, Jerusalem (no publisher given), ro9pp., was actually first written in I97I at the request of Louis Michel, professor at the Universite Paul Valery of Montpellier, and the final text benefited from his observations and comments. The concise survey concentrates on the I 6th to I 8th cs in Romanian literary history, with separate chapters on Nicolas Milescu Spathar, Antim Ivireanu (who is dubbed 'un Bossuet roumain'), Nicolas Costin, Ion Neculce, and, of course, Dimitre Cantemir. Grosu sees the particular circumstances of Romanian history as having contributed to the extension beyond normal historical limits of the 'moyen-age': the Romanians were still in their cultural Middle Ages at the moment when other Western cultures embarked on the Renaissance, and they remained so until I8:n. Nevertheless, the influence of French and Italian cultures remained predominant: 'L'alphabet cyrillique et Ia culture http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0084-4152
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2222-4297
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10.1163/22224297-90003340
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Abstract

Romanian Studies LITERATURE By VANESSA L. DAVIES, Director, Language and Communication Centre, King's College London I. GENERAL The quantity of published criticism remains relatively low for the year covered: most publishers are concentrating their efforts towards the publication of primary sources which have been unavailable in recent years. GENERAL CRITICISM AND LITERARY TRENDS; LITERARY HISTORY. Mitu Grosu, La Litterature roumaine au moyen-age, Jerusalem (no publisher given), ro9pp., was actually first written in I97I at the request of Louis Michel, professor at the Universite Paul Valery of Montpellier, and the final text benefited from his observations and comments. The concise survey concentrates on the I 6th to I 8th cs in Romanian literary history, with separate chapters on Nicolas Milescu Spathar, Antim Ivireanu (who is dubbed 'un Bossuet roumain'), Nicolas Costin, Ion Neculce, and, of course, Dimitre Cantemir. Grosu sees the particular circumstances of Romanian history as having contributed to the extension beyond normal historical limits of the 'moyen-age': the Romanians were still in their cultural Middle Ages at the moment when other Western cultures embarked on the Renaissance, and they remained so until I8:n. Nevertheless, the influence of French and Italian cultures remained predominant: 'L'alphabet cyrillique et Ia culture

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The Year’s Work in Modern Language StudiesBrill

Published: Mar 13, 1994

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