DIMITRIE CANTEMIR ET LE RENOUVELLEMENT DE L’ANCIEN ROUMAIN LITTÉRAIRE

👤Author

Name: Gh. Chivu
Affiliation: Romanian Academy, Section of Philology

📄Article

Citation Recommendation: Chivu, Gh., „Dimitrie Cantemir et le renouvellement de lʼancien
roumain littéraire”. Synthesis, no. XXXIX, 2012, pp. 3-12
Title: DIMITRIE CANTEMIR ET LE RENOUVELLEMENT DE L’ANCIEN
ROUMAIN LITTÉRAIRE
Pages: 3-12
Language: French
URL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2012/XXXIX/1_Chivu.pdf

Abstract

The author seeks to identify and to explain some of the characteristics of the works written by Dimitrie Cantemir in Romanian language (Divanul, Istoria ieroglifică and Hronicul). On the one hand, this enterprise aims at emphasizing Cantemir’s linguistic and stylistic innovations in the development of the Romanian written culture at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. On the other hand, there will be discussed the ineffectiveness of some aspects of his cultural heritage

Keywords: old Romanian literature; belles-lettres; linguistic norms; stylistic norms; lexical inventions with a stylistic function