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The paper dwells upon the crisis of literary sociology in Romanian criticism in the decade(s) after the demise of Socialist Realism. Viewing it as a paradox within the research commandments of a communist regime, the study relates this crisis both to the decline of the Marxist-Leninist frame in post-Stalinist, Soviet-emancipated Romania, and to the rising fame of French Structuralism. Some relevant case studies are chosen to highlight the development of Romanian sociological criticism, its difficulty to make amends with the dogmatic past and to swiftly move on to the next level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper intends to discuss the issue of an "internal" literary history and the debate upon this topic in post-war Romanian literary criticism. We shall analyse the methodological influence and solutions suggested by structuralism or stylistics in critics' attempts, starting with the 1970s, to remap Romanian literary history in terms of larger typologies or genres. On the other hand, we shall discuss the features of the Romanian critical environment which trigger the synchronic approaches, and their re-evaluating consequences in the local literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]