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Book SynopsisRuralism and Literature in Romania proposes a series of academic studies of rural literature and cultural portrayals of peasantry. The topics range from re-readings of canonical works to ideological readings of modern Romanian literature, rural novels of the Romanian socialist realism and post-communist literary trends centred around rural life. The three sections of the volume, "The Novel," "Literary Criticism and Social Action," and "Poetry" focus on the intervention of the nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural elites in the discussions of peasantry, on the role of ideology in portraying the peasant during the interwar period and postwar literature, and on off-centre topics such as zoopoetics and artificial intelligence in the rural literature.
Table of ContentsRuralism and Literature in Romania: An Introduction - How to Populate a Country: A Quantitative Analysis of the Rural Novel from Romania (1900–2000) - Liviu Rebreanu: Zoopoetics in a Rural Environment - The Image of the Transylvanian Village in the Novels "Fünf Liter Zuika" by Paul Schuster and "Ion" by Liviu Rebreanu - The English Translation of Romanian Rural Novels in Communist Romania: Skopos Theory in Action - The Ideology of Ruralism in the Thaw Prose: The Case of Marin Predaʼs Moromeții - Rural Idiocy and Ugly Feelings: Muffled Brutality in the Socialist Realist Novel - Peasants and Intelligent Machines - Specters and Counter-Sites: Of Alternative Rural Geographies in Mircea Nedelciu’s Fiction - The Border Village: A Path to Transnationalism - Inventing the Romanian Peasant in Transylvania during the Nineteenth Century - Science Popularization and Romanian Anarchism in the Nineteenth-Century - Social Class Difference and the Evolution of Romanian Literature from Lovinescu’s Perspective (1924–1929) - From Science to Action: Professionalizing Social Work in Greater Romania - Diasporic Nationalism: German Regional Literature from Romania - Negotiating the Rural and the Rustic in the Romanian Avant-Garde - Linguistic Imaginary, Ruralism and Rurality in George Coșbuc’s Writing - New Ruralism. From Village to Globe
