'Taking New Historicism as the framework for formulating her scholarly analysis, Tupan manages to develop a timely and innovative contribution to modernist criticism. The book represents the author's endeavour to create both an inter- and multidisciplinary analysis of important modernist figures, thus opening new avenues for interpreting and understanding modernism as an artistic and cultural movement. Her study opens a broader perspective on epistemic resources and discursive bearings, thereby joining both critics of different persuasions and researchers of distinct disciplines in an effort to reach a more diverse and comprehensive understanding of modernism.'Corina MitrulescuAssistant Professor, Academia Forțelor Terestre Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania'What Maria-Ana Tupan attempts and successfully achieves in Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism is a stand-off from traditional approaches, both to phenomenology, as a distinct twentieth-century outgrowth, and to modernist literature as an aesthetic effect of abysmal psychology. Tupan explains the discursive negotiations between literature and the science maîtresse of the age, psychology, in order to shed light on the influences that underlie modernist works.Throughout Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism, the subtleties of the modernist movement are explored and glossed upon from a personal perspective. The diversity of arguments provided by literary and non-literary resources grants extensive support for the hypothesis Maria-Ana Tupan advances.Summing up, Maria-Ana Tupan's Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism is an innovative critical work, of interest both for those who simply seek to understand the epistemology bearing on canonical modernist literature and for those interested in some of its features that are usually skimped in its analytical treatment. On the balance of probabilities, this twin study of literature and intellectual history is likely to trigger subsequent scholarly research of empirical relevance and speculative appeal.'International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies 3(5): 734-736, 2023

'Taking New Historicism as the framework for formulating her scholarly analysis, Tupan manages to develop a timely and innovative contribution to modernist criticism. The book represents the author's endeavour to create both an inter- and multidisciplinary analysis of important modernist figures, thus opening new avenues for interpreting and understanding modernism as an artistic and cultural movement. Her study opens a broader perspective on epistemic resources and discursive bearings, thereby joining both critics of different persuasions and researchers of distinct disciplines in an effort to reach a more diverse and comprehensive understanding of modernism.'Corina MitrulescuAssistant Professor, Academia Forțelor Terestre Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania'What Maria-Ana Tupan attempts and successfully achieves in Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism is a stand-off from traditional approaches, both to phenomenology, as a distinct twentieth-century outgrowth, and to modernist literature as an aesthetic effect of abysmal psychology. Tupan explains the discursive negotiations between literature and the science maîtresse of the age, psychology, in order to shed light on the influences that underlie modernist works.Throughout Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism, the subtleties of the modernist movement are explored and glossed upon from a personal perspective. The diversity of arguments provided by literary and non-literary resources grants extensive support for the hypothesis Maria-Ana Tupan advances.Summing up, Maria-Ana Tupan's Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism is an innovative critical work, of interest both for those who simply seek to understand the epistemology bearing on canonical modernist literature and for those interested in some of its features that are usually skimped in its analytical treatment. On the balance of probabilities, this twin study of literature and intellectual history is likely to trigger subsequent scholarly research of empirical relevance and speculative appeal.'International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies 3(5): 734-736, 2023

Maria-Ana Tupan is Habilitated Professor of Literary Theory and History, affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, Romania. She holds a master's degree in British and German Literature from Bucharest University and a PhD in Philology from the Romanian Academy. In 1994-1995 she was affiliated with Penn State University as Senior Fulbright grantee. She is a member of the Romanian Writers' Union and of several international academic societies. She has received several awards as literary critic and translator. Her relevant titles include: The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes: The Mirror and the Signet; The Key to Change. Interdisciplinary Essays in Cultural History; The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity; Realismul magic; Relativism-Relativity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Concept. Modernismul si psihologia. Încercare de epistemologie literara/ Modernism and Psychology. An Inquiry into the Epistemology of Literary Modernism; Genre and Postmodernism.