The Rhetoric of Heroism in the Romanian Poetry of the Independence War (1877)

After re-reading the lyric poetry of Vasile Alecsandri and George Coșbuc, the article aims to highlight the mechanism through which the War of Independence (1877-1878) of the Kingdom of Romania, bringing an end to a revolutionary epoch, enters the consciousness of posterity literary instrumented by the poems of two civilian writers, fueling the myth of the heroic Romanian soldier while writing not only from a significant geographical distance in relation to the battlefield, but also from a temporal one, biologically speaking.

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