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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2024  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW : PAUL CERNAT, BACOVIA ȘI NOUL REGIM AL LITERATURII, BUCUREȘTI: EIKON, 2022, 446 P..

Authors:  IOANA ONESCU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:   Available online 25 June 2024; Available print 30 June 2024.
pp. 276-279

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ABSTRACT. Paul Cernat’s recent volume, Bacovia și Noul Regim al literaturii (Bacovia and the New Regime of Literature), is an in-depth analysis of Bacovia’s case by delving into the history of reception, underscoring that "it is not so much the validity of the evaluations that is of interest here, as the «mutation of aesthetic values» that favored or, on the contrary, disfavored the reception of one segment or another of Bacovian literature" (p.6), hence the division into the old regime, respectively the new regime of criticism. The book’s main aim is obvious right from the title: the rehabilitation of those volumes that were overlooked by what the critic calls The Old Regime of Criticism which includes the commentators who privileged the debut volume (Plumb), identifying in the following ones signs of creative decline and, implicitly, an involution.
 
         
     
         
         
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