If, as Galin Tihanov has pointed out, literary theory as a discipline was \u201cborn\u201d in the north-central regions of Eastern Europe in the 1920s and dominated literary studies until its “death” in the last decades of the twentieth century, what happened during this period in the \u201cother\u201d Eastern Europe (the Southeastern one), what are the causes of the divergencies that occurred, and \u2014 more importantly \u2014 to what extent can we recover the long Southeast European legacy of discourses of literary and cultural criticism (going back to their inception in the 1860s) from the perspective of current theoretical thinking? In STRASYN, a team of 16 researchers (project director, 9 experienced researchers, 6 postdocs and 4 PhD students) aims to answer these questions by coupling world-system analysis \u2014 in particular the concept of subperiphery, theorized by the project members \u2014 with the theory of \u201cregimes of relevance,\u201d and then using both to explore literary and cultural criticism in Romania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia (particularly Serbia and Slovenia) between 1866 and 1989. Apart from the pioneering quality of such an approach, which proposes a comparative examination of three neighboring literary cultures that have often ignored each other, a remarkably original aspect of our project is that we will test the validity of the literary and cultural theories produced in the region during the period mentioned not only by studying them, but also by reflecting on them and mobilizing some of them as possible explanatory tools, thus seeking to test their current relevance by confronting them with the set of theoretical and critical discourses on literature that dominate literary studies today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Project title:<\/strong> Theorizing (Sub)peripheries: Strategies of Synchronization in Southeast European Literary and Cultural Criticism<\/p>\n\n\n\n Project code:<\/strong> PNRR-III-C9-2023\u2013I8-CF141\/31.07.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contract<\/strong> no. 760247\/28.12.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Funder:<\/strong> Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization, via the National Plan of Recovery and Resilience (Component 9, Initiative 8)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duration:<\/strong> January 1, 2024 – June 30, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Budget:<\/strong> \u20ac1,206,604.19<\/p>\n\n\n\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Professor Galin Tihanov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If, as Galin Tihanov has pointed out, literary theory as a discipline was \u201cborn\u201d in the north-central regions of Eastern Europe in the 1920s and dominated literary studies until its “death” in the last decades of the twentieth century, what happened during this period in the \u201cother\u201d Eastern Europe (the Southeastern one), what are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/strasyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/strasyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/strasyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/strasyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/strasyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/strasyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/strasyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/strasyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}