Coordonate ştiinţifice în studiile de stilistică eminesciană. D. Caracostea

Author(s): Sorina Sorescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2015

Praised for his attempts of alignment to the Western epistemological horizon, (“the first Romanian structuralist”, according to some of the post-war editors), D. Caracostea had brilliant followers. The Eminescu exegesis school in Cluj was established starting from his ideas. He was also highly contested. This article aims at emphasizing the scientific coordinates of his 1938 study Arta cuvântului la Eminescu (Eminescu’s Artistic Use of Language), by identifying its contested elements (flawed wording, transcendental vision, nationalism), as well as those that are valid (an attempt to go beyond deviance stylistics, multiple levels of stylistic analysis, comments on image morphology).

The Image of the Poet Mihai Eminescu in the literary Dictionaries

Author(s): Petra Denisa Tcacenco / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Mihai Eminescu is known as the Romanian national poet, the most im-portant writer of the XIXth century in Romanian literature, whose writ-ings have been intensely interpreted since his poetic debut. Therefore, this paper proposes a study of the way the literary dictionaries build the image of “the national poet”. This identity construct is significant to our investigation because it influences the interpretation of the poet’s figure through history. In order to have a wider view of the problem, we con-sulted a series of literary dictionaries and also dictionaries for students use to see how the figure of Eminescu is taught in schools. Moreover, we did not put aside foreign dictionaries, which bring a more objective per-spective to the issue. The majority of Romanian dictionaries alter the po-et’s portrait in favor of a “national construct”, created partly by the use of rhetoric figures. Another way of composing him a deformed image is accomplished by writing subjective and opaque interpretation of his po-ems. Consequently, such hermeneutics focuses on developing a myth that reflects mainly the way Romanians as nation want to be recognized and remembered.

Informaţii bibliologice în corespondenţa prof. univ. dr. doc. Dan Simionescu

Author(s): Dan Râpă-Buicliu,Dragoş Stăncescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2009

From the private correspondence the reputed bibliophile, professor Dan Simonescu, entertained, between 1967-1984, with some religious and cultural personalities from Banat, we can acquire some interesting cultural and historiographical information, much of it pertaining to the national bibliophile heritage.

Strategii transgresive în proza lui M. Blecher

Author(s): Irina Dincă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 54/2016

This paper will focus on the way the transgressive vision of M. Blecher is configured both in his theoretical approach from his programmatic essays and in his prose – Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată [Adventures in Immediate Irreality], Inimi cicatrizate [Scarred Hearts] and Vizuina luminată [The Lit-Up Burrow]. Beyond the fragmentary appearance of M. Blecher’s work, a series of recurrent patterns and imaginative strategies can be discovered, forming the nucleus of a transgressive vision. Firstly, we will follow the synthetic considerations which can be found in some articles published by M. Blecher in 1935, including Care este esenţa poeziei? [What is the Essence of Poetry?] and Între imaginaţie şi experienţă [Between Imagination and Experience], which reveal the principles of his transgressive poetics. M. Blecher’s paradoxical lucidity results in the flexibility of logical structures, transgressing the classical principles of Aristotelian logics, especially by accepting the dynamic equilibrium of the included middle. In the same way in which the mind transgresses the constrictive limits of rationality, the functions of the perception are enlarged and sharpened, opening towards a more subtle and enriched (ir)reality, which surpasses the binary scheme of the real vs. the unreal. The hermeneutical approach follows the mechanisms that produce the transgression of the immediate reality in M. Blecher’s prose, revealing an expanded reality, with multiple levels, which creates the effects of overlapped photos.

The Romanian Post-Avant-Gardes. Between Influence and Equivalence

Author(s): Emanuel Modoc / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

For the better part of the last three decades, Romanian poetry has undergone a series of mutations that led to the recovery of the interwar avant-garde, both in terms of poetic discursive strategies and in the militant rhetoric of its manifestoes. Although the first avant-garde influences date back to the 60ies, with a major iteration in the 70ies and the 80ies, because of the socio-cultural context of these periods we can only speak of a formal influence of the avant-garde. This paper intends to analyse how the Romanian poetry of the 2000s is the first true iteration of the inter-war avant-garde that accomplished a stylistic, thematic, and ideological literary recovery, in a way that could not have been possible in communist-era Romania. For this, the study will assess the socio-cultural context of Romanian post-communist transition and its influence on the contemporary literary structures and institutions, while also drawing parallels between the avant-garde and the contemporary programmatic literary discourses.

CARIERE, DESTINE ȘI ATITUDINI NAȚIONALE ROMANEȘTI IN BASARABIA: CONSTANTIN STERE ȘI REVISTA VIAȚA ROMANEASCA

CARIERE, DESTINE ȘI ATITUDINI NAȚIONALE ROMANEȘTI IN BASARABIA: CONSTANTIN STERE ȘI REVISTA VIAȚA ROMANEASCA

Author(s): Răducu Rușeț / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2016

This historical research entitled Careers, destinies and Romanian national attitudes in Bessarabia: Constantin Stere and Romanian Life Journal aims to evoke some aspects of biographical and journalistic activity of the writer, publicist and politician Constantin Stere. This biographic-intellectual and diachronic reconstitution of personality of Bassarabian Constantin Stere approach aims to bring on the first stage of actual historiography an exposure of his life.The author divided this article into several sequential steps: 1) Early Years; 2) High School and the first political initiatives; 3) The period of detention and deportation; 4) Return from exile and university studies; 5) Political and journalistic activity; 6) His last years. Far from having pretensions of completeness, this historical approach wishes, in anniversary year, to bring, based on bibliography, some important moments from Constantin Stere’s life, the novelty of this study consisting of historical and historiographical revaluation of the importance of Constantin Stere, proposing a new approach and a historical perspective of the subject.The current state of research on the topic consisted in a review and reevaluation of sources. Thus, we can mention that about Constantin Stere are written important works, studies, articles, numerous online sites that published articles about his work etc. A historiographical reconsideration of the subject proposed reveals a growing interest in the debate about his personality. We will mention the following works: Virginia Musat: Constantin Stere. The Writer (1978); Ion Căpreanu, The essay of a restitution. Constantin Stere (1988), Zigu Ornea Life of Constantin Stere (1989, 1991), a monography in two volumes. He also republished in Bucharest in 1991 and 1993, the work dedicated to Stere. The increased attention also in Moldavia was revealed in 1991 when appears the V. Badiu’s documentation about C. Stere’s activity. A great importance has I. Vasilenco’s article in1963. There are another two books published in 1957: Alone against all (Alina Ciobanu) and Constantin Stere: The victory of a defeat (Maria Teodorovici). More recent works are those of Ion Space, Constantin Stere the writer, the publicist, the politician, the man, Moldovian’s Academy of Sciences, Chisinau, 2009 and Lucian Boia, The Germanophiles, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2013. Also, in recent bibliographic literature about Constantin Stere, we have to reveal the three-volume edition edited by Professor Victor Durnea, C. Stere- Journalism, published by Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi. We can see that from the 90s until the present politico-literary and journalistic work of this writer became more researched and studied. After outlining the current state of this research, we can say that, through this article, in this festive moment for Chisinau, we reveal moments and aspects of the life of a journalist often forgotten: Constantin Stere. We consider it is important to study the personality of this politician and publicist because history can be defined by the sum of biographies of people who have worked in a certain period of time. The era of Stere worth to be explored and studied in the context of political and intellectual evolution in the second half of nineteenth century and the hole twentieth century.

Anekdoták az átmenetről

Author(s): Annamária Codău / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2017

Dan Lungu: Tyúkok a mennyben

Activitatea de funcționar îndeplinită de Vasile Alecsandri.

Author(s): Radu Moţoc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2016

The article reflectes the moments of civil servant and archivist activities fulfilled by Vasile Alecsandri. It is highlighted the reasons why the younger Vasile Alecsandri was promoted to the rank of Spathar (sword-bearer), then the great Spathar (sword bearer).

Kötelező paranoia

Author(s): Annamária Codău / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 08/2017

Norman Manea: Kötelező boldogság. Ford. Vallasek Júlia. FISZ – Jelenkor, Bp., 2016.

(Re)actualizarea simbologiei româneşti în spaţiul posttotalitar

Author(s): Mariana Anton / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2011

Our study is focused on the hermeneutic approach on the Romanian simbology within the post-totalitarian age by displaying new perspectives of re-reading the literary work.

LIMBĂ, FOLCLOR, CULTURĂ. O GRILĂ SEMIOTICĂ A MOTIVULUI „DRUM“

Author(s): Laura Spăriosu,Sorin Daniel Vintilă,Ivana Ivanić / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2017

Every literature has its own beginning and directions with which it manifests and unites poets and prose writers based on specific literary characteristics. Each literary direction has its own program or a manifest published in the first issue of the magazine that promotes his ideology. Regarding Romanian literature from Vojvodina, literary historians fixed it's beginings, starting with the fifth decade of the last century, the appearance of the first literary magazine in the region. Literary historians do not talk about the existence of Romanian novels in Vojvodina before 1945th. Starting with the ideas of the literary historians, by publishing the first chapters of novels in cultural magazines of Vojvodina of the 50's, is considered as the beginning of the Romanian novel in Vojvodina. In this paper we will try to make a division of the Romanian novel in Vojvodina for the first time and to point out the most important topics and motives in the development of the novel, characteristic for the Romanian rural area of Banat.

„Milyen ízű és szagú a szocializmus?”

Author(s): Máté Maior / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2018

Doru Pop: Szocialista szappanopera. Ford. Tamás Etelka. Lector Kiadó, Marosvásárhely, 2017

Istoria postmodernismului prin antologii

Author(s): Corina Croitoru,Iulia Rădac,Gheorghe Perian,Eliza Deac,Anca Ursa,Călin Teutişan,Robert Cincu,Anca Chiorean,Lucia Ţurcanu,Adriana Stan,Cosmin Borza,Marius Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 09-10/2016

This literary snippet colligates different perspectives on the complex phenomenon of the Romanian postmodernist literature through anthologies.

Profesorul Eugen Todoran. Repere biografice

Author(s): Vasile D. Ţâra / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 56/2018

În spiritul culturii românești interbelice, nevoia de excelență: Profesorul Eugen Todoran

Author(s): Ileana Oancea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 56/2018

The interwar period was dominated by the efforts of major intellectuals to create a great Romanian culture of universal value. Living in difficult times, Professor Eugen Todoran endeavoured, both as a critic and as an academic concerned with the construction of university structures, to impose the models of excellence of the interwar generations, in a process of continuity that has considerable significance for our recent history, which can be discovered a posteriori.

Maiorescianismul – constantă în atitudinea critică

Author(s): Alexandru Ruja / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 56/2018

Born in the Great Union year – 1918 – and educated in the academic atmosphere of the University of Cluj-Sibiu, Eugen Todoran remained attached, throughout his life, to the great culture and the great values that he later promoted in his work. As a professor at the West University of Timișoara, he formed generations of Romanian literature specialists, able to study, understand and evaluate the major works of literature, that is, valuable literature. The present study – Titu Maiorescu’s Influence, a Constant of the Critical Attitude – highlights an essential feature of Eugen Todoran’s activity, that is to follow the line of critical activity traced in Romanian literature by Titu Maiorescu. It is no coincidence that the first article written by Eugen Todoran, in high school, was about Titu Maiorescu. Later, during maturity, he wrote a book about the creator of Romanian literary criticism entitled Maiorescu (1977). In evaluating the literary work, Eugen Todoran emphasises the aesthetic value of the work as it was theorized and argued for by Titu Maiorescu. The studies dedicated to the work of Mihai Eminescu and Lucian Blaga prove it. A true monograph, Eugen Todoran’s extensive study shows the way Titu Maiorescu became a well-known literary critic and the reason he is a model for others, a school founder, the creator of a new direction, of the modernization of Romanian culture, seen as a blending of national values with European culture.

Câteva considerații despre instrumentalizarea mitului în exegeza lui Eugen Todoran

Author(s): Marcel Tolcea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 56/2018

The present study aims to show how Eugen Todoran has applied the concept of “myth” to Mihai Eminescu’s and Lucian Blaga’s literary works, at the intersection of phenomenological critique with Gilbert Durand’s interpretations. We are dealing, by all means, with a process of going beyond literary hermeneutics and opening up toward an anthropological perspective, similar to Mircea Eliade’s approach to the religious phenomenon, within the phenomenological paradigm. Our hypothesis is that, in a context that exceeds the scope of literature, the relations between “literary truth” and “ontological truth” undergo a radical change, just like the relations between truth, fiction and imagination/imaginal. All this leads to the reconfiguration of a post-positivist paradigm, which Eugen Todoran has never theorised, nor described in these terms. But the role of hermeneutics becomes even more important when, in addition to unravelling less obvious meanings, it also looks into methodological consequences.

Eugen Todoran, între Cercul literar de la Sibiu și eminescologia timișoreană

Author(s): Cornel Ungureanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 56/2018

The study looks into how the Literary Circle of Sibiu, the well-known literary group that was defining for the University of Cluj in exile, shaped, through its writers, a new direction in Romanian culture. To Eugen Todoran, this “new direction” meant, primarily, a novel understanding of Eminescu’s work. The present article shows how Eugen Todoran extended the Circle’s project in Timișoara, through his books about Eminescu, Maiorescu, Blaga, and through his students. He extended this project, but he also defined a way of understanding Romanian culture.

Țiganiada: bucuria textului

Author(s): Bogdan Balita,Roxana-Sînziana Rogobete / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 56/2018

Our approach follows two dimensions of the text The Gypsy Epic Poem (Țiganiada) by Ion Budai-Deleanu. On the one hand, we focus on the French Enlightenment model present in this epic of the Transylvanian writer, in the line identified by Ioana Em. Petrescu in her critical studies. The heroi-comic poem Țiganiada is the first Romanian writing to bring Enlightenment ideas into a parody, and some of the texts to which it relates are La Pucelle d'Orleans by Voltaire, Gli animali parlanti by Casti, or Vergil’s Aeneid. On the other hand, we use the French theoretical model in the analysis of the epic poem, namely the “architextural” system designed by Gérard Genette (presented in the The Architext: An Introduction). We identify the textual levels of the poem, concluding that Budai-Deleanu’s purpose was not only related to founding a literature in the Romanian language, but also to the bliss of playing with literature and textual strategies.

Mircea Cărtărescu, Frumoasele străine – etape ale unei călătorii inter-textuale și inter-culturale în cheie parodică

Author(s): Simona Antofi / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 56/2018

The parodic discourse of the three stories making up the volume entitled Beautiful Strangers by Mircea Cărtărescu is a very good example of his postmodern writing that questions, at the same time, the erudition of books, ordinary life and contemporary Romanian society. Apparently, Beautiful Strangers is a lighthearted book, but in reality it is a superior, highly intelligent, metaliterary game that can be seen as an exercise in literary virtuosity.