"Trupy wstawać". O "Weselu" w reżyserii Jana Klaty

Author(s): Artur Duda / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4-5/2017

Artykuł jest próbą analizy i interpretacji reżyserskiej koncepcji wystawienia Wesela Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w Narodowym Starym Teatrze w Krakowie. Autor ukazuje kluczowe elementy wizji Jana Klaty, poczynając od umocowania tej wizji w tekście dramatu, poprzez użycie muzyki i tekstów blackmetalowego zespołu Furia, po rozwiązania scenograficzne, kostiumowe i aktorskie, które składają się na ogólną wymowę spektaklu jako „nocy żywych trupów”. Szczególną uwagę autor poświęca postaciom dramatu jako żywym umarłym oraz kreacjom zjaw z II aktu Wesela.

(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.

2005 revisited

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Author(s): Ovio Olaru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 5/2016

The text presents the evolution of t.s. khasis' poetry and its distinctive poetic voice in the picture of contemporary Romanian literature.

A existat o terminologie politică în limba română la cumpăna veacurilor al XVIII-lea şi al XIX-lea ?

Author(s): Gheorghe Chivu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2012

In an era marked by a well known cultural and political circumstance, in which language reflects the change of the South-Eastern European social and political patterns with the Western ones, the analysis of some of the components of the literary vocabulary shows the emergence of some incipient terminological specializations for designating the activity in the different areas of the Romanian political life.

A MANUSCRIPT OF TITUS POPOVICI, THE NOVEL: THE DEATH OF HAPPY OBJECTS

Author(s): Sonia Grec-Stef / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Little is known about Titus Popovici’s novel, Moartea obiectelor fericite (The Death of Happy Objects). This novel, dating from 1972, was never published integrally. The novel hides, under the general literary motifs of death and the misfit intellectual hero, subtle ironies for the current political state of that year: the communism. War, history, the issue of freedom, the psychological and the human decay, are just some landmarks of the novel. The novel is unfinished and unfortunately not known by the readers. However, the evil and the cruel violent scenes, evocation of the childhood and family love relations, or the grotesque appointments of individual and life, define Titus Popovici as fabulous writer and interpreter, who harnesses a unique political-historical experience. The Death of Happy Objects is the core, the deck between Ipu’s death (1970) and The stranger (1955) and the post-december prose The boots’ box (1990), and The discipline of mess (1998).

About love, murder and emeralds. Ioan petru culianu's ”seriously” game with fiction

Author(s): Ciprian Iulian Toroczkai / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 34/2015

This study looks into how Ioan Petru Culianu illustrated some of his ideas, as a historian of religions and as a philosopher of culture, in one of his literary works, The Emeralds Game. This novel is more than mere detective fiction, it is also a magic and esoteric novel, and to understand it we need to refer to magic, astrologic or geomantic practices. This means the considerations the author expressed in his other essential scientific works are “logically” extended, continued in this literary writing. The contemporaneity of the work is suggested by the significant fictional world it proposes, a world where the political blends with the religious, where reality blends with the psychological, science with adventure; all these aspects bring this novel to the same level with other similar novels, like Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose or Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.

Activitatea de funcționar îndeplinită de Vasile Alecsandri.

Author(s): Radu Motoc / 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).

Adaptare și imitație în romanele "No Time Like the Present", de Nadine Gordimer și „Vremea Minunilor", de Cătălin Dorian Florescu

Author(s): Simina Timofte / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2018

In a series of lectures in 1994, Nadine Gordimer remarks the different status of Africa which is no longer at the edge of the empire, but on the contrary, in the center of it. In this respect, post-apartheid Africa has rebuilt its national identity on the background of global events that write universal history, offering citizens the chance to escape their country's constraints and bring important key elements in the globalization process.Thus, replacing apartheid themes in a new country is an extreme taskby the applicant. Some of the favourite subjects of the "old guard" are the following: the importance of multiculturalism in post-apartheid South Africa, the writer's status, vulgarisation of violence due to mass-media, reconciliation with a violent past and their economic and cultural implications, the fight against AIDS, sexual emancipation, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, uprooting, migration and economic exile which replaced major pre-existing concerns about violence, racial and gender discrimination, the relationship between literature and politics, or the role of ethics in literature.The same situation can be applied to eastern countries. Even though they were not "postcolonial" in the classical sense of the term, applicable to the former British, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch colonies, the "post-communist transition" through which they passed included the disarmament of a certain political and economic "occupation".People had to adapt to the new order, to the new reality, which was a complex process, a difficult one, that implied, many times, exile.Therefore, the purpose of my argument is to present what consequences can occur at the psychological level because of the attempt of adaptation of the characters to the new social and political order, by imitation, postcolonial and post-communist context. And here comes the question: does imitation facilitate adaptation? Although the logical answer would be yes, we will notice, by discussing the two texts, exactly the opposite.

Addiction to/in Ion Luca Caragiale: Buddies, Chit-Chat, Beer Houses, Coffee Houses

Author(s): Adriana Ghitoi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

The following text proposes to demonstrate two things. First, the relationship of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale with the critics over the decades is one of apparent addiction. These critics espouse everything from sublime adulation to unfair disparagement. Secondly, the article explores particular types of characters, the ‘buddies’, whose identitary parameters are close mutual dependence, addiction to conversation and to the place where this happens, the beer or the coffee house. Both hypotheses refute the grim predictions regarding a potential lack of endurance and the charge of having penned works of destructive satire, attacking the Romanian people and their country. Therefore, the first half of my paper will offer a review of literary critiques, while the second half will analyze, through the comparative method, “Amicii”, “Lache şi Mache”, “Amicul X” “Situaţiune”, and “O lacună”, five works of fiction that offer a typology of ‘buddies’. This will hopefully prove that Caragiale was not ‘anti-Romanian’, a ‘rascal’ or ‘laughing with cruelty’, but, on the contrary, was a ‘wise, good and ironic’ observer of human nature.

Alexandra Vrănceanu, Interferenţe, hibridări, tehnici mixte. Studii ale expresiei contemporane, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2007

Author(s): Doina Marta Bejan / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 4-II/2010

Alexandra Vrănceanu, conferenţiar la Catedra de literatură comparată a Universităţii din Bucureşti, este cunoscută pentru lucrările în domeniul relaţiilor dintre literatură şi artele vizuale (2001 - Modele literare în naraţiunea vizuală. Cum citim o poveste în imagini?: www.onlinegallery.ro/carte/1 books_menu.html şi, împreună cu acad. Dan Grigorescu, în 2002 -Metamorfoze imagine&text: www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/filologie/metam/2.htm). În ultima carte pe care a publicat-o în 2007, Interferenţe, hibridări, tehnici mixte. Studii ale expresiei contemporane, cercetătoarea urmăreşte un fenomen din ce în ce mai frecvent în cultura contemporană – hibridarea – ce se poate manifesta în moduri diferite „de la contaminarea genurilor, confuzia până la disoluţie între high şi low culture, între literatură şi arte, până la amestecul de limbaje şi coduri (limbaj verbal, fotografie, performance, pictură etc.)” (p.5).

An Intercultural Dialogue in the Age of Romanticism

Author(s): Dana Sala / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Cepraga`s book on the experiments of Italianism within the Romanian literature of the 19th century is a thorough and useful study on a niche research, with a subtle alternation of perspectives and a consistent documentation. Written in Italian, Cepraga`s study also picks up the forgotten gems of the 19th century Romanian language. The creation of the Romantic poetical language is retrieved through a complex fusion of methods imported from stylistics, music, history of language, poetics and linguistics, combined with cultural studies

Analogia ca formă de manifestare a creativităţii limbajului. Cu privire la concepţia lingvistică a lui Eugeniu Coşeriu

Author(s): Ionel Apostolatu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2010

As it was defined by Eugeniu Coşeriu, language (understood as “speech”) is a creative, free and purposeful human activity. Language creativity – one of the universals that define language reality – is the outcome of a creative authority’s activity, which is the speaker himself. When dealing with linguistic change, Eugeniu Coşeriu demonstrates that this natural phenomenon, affecting the existence of any living language, is nothing but the creative energy (Gr. energeia) that is scientifically objected and turned into “knowledge” (Gr. dynamis), thus becoming tradition and serving as a model for future innovations. Man’s freedom of creation is not unlimited; the existence of some linguistic tradition and patterns of expression makes the speaker proceed analogically whenever he wants to create in his own language. Any speaker is the owner of some knowledge of a saber (“competence”) that represents the starting point of a speech that is always new and always to come. However, this “novelty” or originality of speech is relative, because on the one hand it goes beyond the dynamis, and on the other hand it returns to the dynamis status, in case linguistic innovation is adopted as a pattern (for future but analogical innovations) and turns itself into tradition. In such an interpretation, stating that analogy represents an aspect of dynamis means that it is given a special significance within the process of linguistic change or, better said, within the framework of language creativity.

Anatomia simbolului în romanele lui Max Blecher

Author(s): Nicoleta Hristu (Hurmuzache) / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2016

Our study analizes Blecher's narratives by focusing on his major symbols.

Anekdoták az átmenetről

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

Dan Lungu: Tyúkok a mennyben

Angela Marinescu. Autoscopie si Negativitate

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Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3-4/2016

This study engages into a reflection upon the particularities of the poetry signed by Angela Marinescu, mainly the metaphysics of negativity as a way of coping with the fractured and spasmodic existence. There is a certain embodiment of adhesiveness to a poetics of fear and trauma through the rebound of Neo- Expressionism visionary perspective.

Angelic and Crepuscular in Alexandru Sever’s Drama

Author(s): Elena Iancu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-2/2014

The illustration of a world, apparently drifting, the (de)mystification of the transcendent and of the act of creation, as idea and textual strategy, seem to Alexandru Sever (1921-2010) a means for another beginning. The impossibility of action in Înger bătrîn/ The Old Angel (1977) and the pact-making in Îngerul slut/ The Miscreated Angel (1982), imply metamorphosis in essence, supported by the dialogue with the great texts of the world, by intertextuality (the biblical text, Shakespeare's texts -Hamlet -Yorick, texts written by Göethe, Beckett, Marlowe, Dostoevsky, J. P. Sartre, Mikhail Bulgakov and others). The projection of Auschwitz, as a Siberia of the spirit, and that of Faustianism, result in a detailed analysis of the human, both as individuality and as community, in an attempt to illustrate the (in)intelligible inaction, death involving catharsis in the mundane and the theatre alike.

Approaching Cultural and Historical Aspects in Literary Translation. A Case Study: Ioan Slavici‟s The Lucky Mill Translated by Fred Nădăban

Author(s): Antoanela Marta Mardar / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Starting from a brief, chronological presentation of some significant views on translation, the present paper enlarges on possible approaches to translating cultural and historical aspects in literary texts. The text chosen to illustrate these approaches is Fred Nădăban‘s translation into English of Ioan Slavici‘s Moara cu noroc (The Lucky Mill), because this translation proves an interesting and useful illustration of the way in which a series of aspects specific to the 19th century Romanian culture and history were transferred into a significantly different cultural and historical space, namely the English one.

Approche Métatextuelle Du Discours Dramatique Ionescien – Le Dialogue Avec La Tradition Littéraire

Author(s): Adriana Lazar / Language(s): French / Issue: 4/2012

Literary works are a constant topic of commentary.Literary texts carry specific metalinguistic and metapragmaticelements and require metalinguistic and metapragmatic codesand competences in order to prevent misunderstanding. Ourpaper aims to highlight the reasons for attaching themetatextual label to Eugène Ionesco’s dramatic work.Ionesco’s plays can be viewed as some sort of comment onprevious dramatic texts defying the traditional theatricalconventions. Remarks on literature and art appear all throughhis life : in critical texts, as well as in his characters’statements. Metatextual comment is deeply embedded in theproduction of dramatic text itself and is placed at the naturalconfluence of the playwright and the reader, that is of the onewho writes the plays and the one who watches his writing.

Arome şi simbol în universul poetic minulescian. O analiză textual-discursivă

Author(s): Mihaela Munteanu - Siserman / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 14/2014

The approach proposed through the textual-discursive analysis of some samples selected from Ion Minulescu’s poetic universe (especially the Romanţe [Romances] series) aims at highlighting elements expressed in the world of signs, which conveys different cultural connotations (the study achieves a short history of perfume and the influence of perfume houses on Romanian poetic space: for instance, the line from a poem by Minulescu “Here is why I love Rosine”, which refers directly to the French perfume house Guerlain). The devices employed to express different textual networks (as they are defined in the model of iceberg texts) – networks that may be of an intonational-melodious kind (identified on the level of rhythm, refrain, and so on) or of an intertextual one (realised by means of direct citation or indirect allusions) – overlap and/or blend with the synesthetic effects in which various sensations (olfactory, colourful, and aural) “communicate” on the affective level and contribute to the construction of meaning.

Artur Rega: „Omul în lumea simbolurilor. Antropologia filozofică a lui Mircea Eliade”

Author(s): Magdalena FILARY / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

The Polish exegesis of Mircea Eliade's work has grown after 1989 through monographs and studies devoted entirely to hermeneutics that the historian and phenomenologist of religions imposes on the sciences dealing with the study of sacredness, of religious phenomena and related symbolism. The book Man in the Symbol World. Philosophical Anthropology of Mircea Eliade by Artur Rega is among them.