Discourse Traditions in Liviu Rebreanu’s Novels Ion and Răscoala

Abstract

In this article, we aim at proving that a certain discourse tradition, regarding the usage of
expressive phraseologisms in prose, does not function properly when it comes to Liviu Rebreanu’s
two novels, namely Ion and Răscoala. Usually, as Cristinel Munteanu previously demonstrated, in the
literary texts authored by writers such as Duiliu Zamfirescu, Mihail Sadoveanu, Fănuș Neagu etc., as
a rule, one can identify the most expressive idioms and set phrases at the dialogued level, and not at
the narrative level. It seems that in Liviu Rebreanu’s case this discourse tradition functions the other
way round. Our study, based on a comprehensive analysis of both aforementioned novels, will
confirm such a hypothesis.