The Role of Language in Building Characters in Caragiale’s Comedies

The study aims to emphasize some critical opinions that observe and illustrate the power and talent of I.L. Caragiale to imagine a human character or a comic situation with the creative force of words. The characters are outlined in all the comedies from the first act, the dominant features of the...

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Main Author: Mirela Curcă
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Danubius University 2018-12-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Danubius: Communicatio
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Online Access:http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/communicatio/article/view/5470/4750
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spelling doaj-eaaf7c2f018943abba08b431a33a651a2020-11-25T00:46:42ZengDanubius University Acta Universitatis Danubius: Communicatio1844-75622069-03982018-12-011226471The Role of Language in Building Characters in Caragiale’s ComediesMirela Curcă0„Edmond Nicolau” HighschoolThe study aims to emphasize some critical opinions that observe and illustrate the power and talent of I.L. Caragiale to imagine a human character or a comic situation with the creative force of words. The characters are outlined in all the comedies from the first act, the dominant features of the heroes being highlighted in particular by language features. The study proposes an analysis of both the critical direction that considers the diversity of the Caragiale social typology to be classical, as well as the modern vision that the grotesque comic in Caragiale’s plays relate to life in its entirety, the world of Caţavencu and Conu Leonida being a hopeless world.http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/communicatio/article/view/5470/4750social typology; critical direction; realism; classicism
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Acta Universitatis Danubius: Communicatio
social typology; critical direction; realism; classicism
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title The Role of Language in Building Characters in Caragiale’s Comedies
title_short The Role of Language in Building Characters in Caragiale’s Comedies
title_full The Role of Language in Building Characters in Caragiale’s Comedies
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publisher Danubius University
series Acta Universitatis Danubius: Communicatio
issn 1844-7562
2069-0398
publishDate 2018-12-01
description The study aims to emphasize some critical opinions that observe and illustrate the power and talent of I.L. Caragiale to imagine a human character or a comic situation with the creative force of words. The characters are outlined in all the comedies from the first act, the dominant features of the heroes being highlighted in particular by language features. The study proposes an analysis of both the critical direction that considers the diversity of the Caragiale social typology to be classical, as well as the modern vision that the grotesque comic in Caragiale’s plays relate to life in its entirety, the world of Caţavencu and Conu Leonida being a hopeless world.
topic social typology; critical direction; realism; classicism
url http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/communicatio/article/view/5470/4750
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