CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Cirjan, Mihai-Dan |
|---|---|
| Title | Intellectuals and Public Discourse: Talking about Literature in Socialist Romania |
| Summary | This thesis is a contribution to the study of intellectuals under state socialism. It aims to analyze the structure of the Romanian literary field during and after the liberalization period of the 1960s. It does this by following the trajectory of two Romanian writers inside the institutional and discursive structures of the literary field. The two case studies provide the opportunity to discuss the effects of the state’s institutionalization of culture. The thesis claims that the co-option of the intelligentsia in the administrative system and the structure of informal networks developed by state institutions made the literary field a complex site where members of the intelligentsia and of the bureaucratic elite engaged in multiple negotiations for state resources. In this scenario the boundaries between the two elites, far from being clearly defined, constantly shifted within the confines of state administration. Starting from this reconsideration of the role of state structures within the literary world, the paper further analyzes its consequences on the public discourse of the cultural field. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/cirjan_mihai-dan.pdf |
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