| Abstract: | In a time when an on-going process of global restructuring affects all the social, political and economic structures and processes, in an era of choices, of liquidity and of ambivalence, one critical issue emerges from all these restructuring processes: the central role of Humanities and particularly the role of literature. The aim of this paper is to relate the study of literature to the study of culture, bearing in mind that literary texts codify patterns and structures of feeling, becoming creative, ethical, aesthetic and political projects. By reading the literary texts in a practice of aesthetic and political concerns we put into perspective what seems to be the two torn parts, the two antinomies: high culture and common culture, in an inclusive process of the ideas, attitudes, practices, institutions, structures of power, economy, sociology, history, as well as the cultural practices, the artistic forms, the texts and the canons. |
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