Reading, Writing, Being: Persians, Parisians, and the Scandal of Identity
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Christian Moraru, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Moraru discusses the impact of Matei Calinescu's writings to all his readers. Calinescu's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps have never perceived himself. Calinescu suggests that meaning-making in the margins of an other's work is self-making, a self-centering identity protocol complete with its rewards and illusions--with identitarian illusion itself as the ultimate and vital reward. In Calinescu's view, identity is conquest, asserts itself with the virility of a conqueror via an historical rhetoric of competition, confrontation, and contradictions.
Reading, Writing, Being: Persians, Parisians, and the Scandal of Identity
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Additional Information
- Publication
- symploke 17.1-2 (2009): 247-253
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Matei Calinescu, Literary Theory, Reading, Identity