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Project

Roemenië. Revisiting Avant-­‐Garde Theory
Code
01SF3313
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 January 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
modernism Romania Tristan Tzara Eugene Ionesco politics absurd avant--garde
 
Project description
 

This project attempts to recuperate the Romanian political context and local circumstances of

Tristan Tzara’s and Eugene Ionesco’s avant-garde forms. The thesis employs a careful reading of Romanian history and politics and their intersection with the literary scene out of which both Tzara and Ionesco emerged, in order to better situate the diverse roots of European modernism

and transnational avant-garde.