AUTHORSHIP STUDIES AND ROMANTICISM
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2019.4.14Keywords:
authorship, Romanticism, the ascension of the author, the ecology of knowledge.Abstract
Authorship Studies and Romanticism. In recent debates about Romantic authorship, scholars seem to be dived on the question of creative subjectivity. As the death and return of the author conundrum rightfully demonstrates, theoretical discussions circle around the problem of authoriality. Indeed, literary studies are in desperate need of a new research methodology. In this paper, I will argue that, by adopting a new ecology of authorial ascension, the academic community will not only be able to decisively abandon 20th-century vocabularies (postmodern, poststructuralist, or postcolonial), but it will also gain insights into the workings of Romantic-period definitions of geniality.
REZUMAT. Teorii auctoriale și romantismul. În dezbaterile dintre cele mai recente, teoria auctorialității romantice - și, prin extensie, problema subiectivității creatoare - pare să polemizeze câmpul academic în cel puțin două tabere. Mai mult, aș zice că ipoteza „morții și întoarcerii autorului” demonstrează, fără dram de îndoială, faptul că discuțiile teoretice sunt mereu purtate în jurul problemei autorității/auctorialității. Tocmai în acest sens, e limpede că, într-o epocă a globalizării digitale, studiile literare au nevoie de o nouă metodologie (una care să depășească stadiul cercetărilor produse în ultimul deceniu al veacului trecut). În această lucrare, voi susține, așadar, faptul că, adoptând o nouă ecologie a înălțării auctoriale, comunitatea academică va reuși nu doar să abandoneze, în mod definitiv, terminologia din cea de-a doua jumătate a secolului XX (postmodernă, poststructuralistă și/sau postcolonială), ci, mai mult, că va obține noi rezultate în ceea ce privește definiția genialității romantice.
Cuvinte cheie: auctorialitate, romantism, înălțarea autorului, ecologia cunoașterii
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