CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Macrea-Toma, Ioana |
|---|---|
| Title | Radio Free Europe in Paris: the Paradoxes of an Ethereal Opposition |
| Summary | This paper explores, interprets and contributes to the studies regarding Radio Free Europe in a cold War context. By focusing on the Romanian Department of RFE and further on to Monica Lovinescu’s cultural broadcasts we intend to provide new insights about a type of cultural liberal advocacy framed by an international context and a local intellectual tradition. By resorting to communication theory, intellectual history and socio-history of intellectuals we will place Monica Lovinescu’s message within an intellectual historical interaction which is responsible for the establishment of a literary canon and for the present discourse about the past. A concentric contextualization will gradually introduce our case study, repositioning it into history after a classicized solemn locating it on a transcendental pedestal. The elements of novelty of our undertaking are multifold: it provides factual information about a phenomenon only personally evoked, it applies a complex set of theoretical methodologies and last, but not least, it uses a comparative comprehensive historical approach in order to discard ethical, Manichean or self-centered visions about the Communist period. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/macrea-toma_ioana.pdf |
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