Così lontano così vicino. Una proposta di lettura “a media distanza”dell’opera poetica di Lucian Blaga

The aim of my research is to propose an analysis of the poetic corpus of Lucian Blaga (1985-1961) that takes its cue from the concepts of close reading (i.e. the "classical" intuitive and stylistic-qualitative analysis of a literary text) and of distant reading, a research path that instead of the close analysis of a single text (or of restricted groups of texts) favors the global and "distanced" vision offered by the study of literature as a phenomenon of "great numbers". Focusing the attention to such a macro-level of interpretation means using concordances, frequency tables, lists, classifications, collocations, literary corpora and the like, in order to obtain a mid-distance reading, which combines the potential offered by digital analysis with the exegetical skills of the human researcher. This reading makes use of the tools offered by Corpus Stylistics, which aims to bridge the gap between corpus linguistics and literary studies. These methodologies, and in general the digital approach to the study of literature, are currently very rarely applied to Romanian literature, and although Blaga himself is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, in recent decades there has been less and less critical attention towards his work. Therefore, starting from the objective points obtained thanks to the quantitative digital analysis, subjective critical reflections were constructed, which had the purpose of confirming or expanding the previous studies of literary criticism on Blaga’s poetry, carried out using close reading methods.