Titu Maiorescu, Jean Psichari et la conscience littéraire nationale
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the midst of the “wars of nations”, a German Hellenist, Karl Dieterich, in a synchronic study of the Greeks and the Romanians, comments on the recent cultural developments of the two Balkan people. All reforms established by Titu Maiorescu and the Junimi...
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Centre d'Études Balkaniques
2014-05-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Balkaniques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/4943 |
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| Summary: | At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the midst of the “wars of nations”, a German Hellenist, Karl Dieterich, in a synchronic study of the Greeks and the Romanians, comments on the recent cultural developments of the two Balkan people. All reforms established by Titu Maiorescu and the Junimists in the fields of language, literature and philosophy prove, according to the author, the dynamism of the Romanian cultural policy more aligned to Western standards than the Greek one, which remained attached to the cult of the past and a presumptuous policy toward neighboring countries. Driven from this unexpected praise of Maiorescu and the Romanian cultural institutions, this paper relates the identity dilemma of Greek intellectuals to the philhellenism decline and the rise of Balkan studies in Central Europe. The paper compares the innovative project of Maiorescu to the more restricted one of Psichari and the Greek demoticists in terms of strategy and objectives. |
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| ISSN: | 0290-7402 2261-4184 |