Omschrijving
Born at the intersection of literary analysis and cultural history, the present book collects evidence in support of the idea that, far from being decadent, in the sense of perverse pursuit of gratuitous refinement and aesthetic relief from historical apathy, the art at the turn of the twentieth century was energised by a desire for meaningful form
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.