Cultura tradiţională imaterială românească din Bistriţa-Năsăud, vo. II, Sărbătorile ciclului social şi calendaristic sau Munci şi zile în Ţinutul Bistriţei şi Năsăudului

Author(s): Dana-Maria RUS / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

Alcătuit dintr-un număr consistent de pagini, volumul de faţă prezintă, într-o manieră amănunţită, aspecte din cultura imaterială a populaţiei din judeţul BistriţaNăsăud de-a lungul secolului XX. Aşa după cum bine remarca profesorul Vasile Dâncu în prezentarea de pe coperta 2 a cărţii, volumul se diferenţiază de alte lucrări de gen prin scopul pentru care a fost scris, şi anume acela de ,,a oferi societăţii şi omului modern o alternativă la pierderea sensului, la uitarea de sine sau la crizele identitare’’. Spaţiul investigat de cei doi autori este bine delimitat chiar din titlu: Ţinutul Bistriţei şi Ţinutul Năsăudului, locuri familiare autorilor care au copilărit şi au crescut în zonă.

VESTIMENTAŢIA ROMANĂ ŞI ELEMENTELE AFERENTE: MOTIVAŢIE ŞI EFECT

Author(s): Constantin POP / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

L'auteur se réfère à la mode masculine, féminine et juvénile qui, à côté d’autres éléments auxiliaires tels que la coiffure et des bijoux, définit le statut social de l'homme (handsome) et de la femme (considérée comme une véritable amazing and beautiful woman) dans la société romaine.

Rabindranath Tagore – poeta świata. Antologia, red. naukowa Elżbieta Walter, [Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2010, 420 s.]

Author(s): Stanisław Tokarski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2011

Un ricettario manoscritto del 1947

Author(s): Maria Lucia Aliffi / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2020

The author found notebooks of cooking recipes from her mother and aunt. The notebooks are handwritten and date to the period following World War II. The importance of the notebooks consists in the fact that they are a testimony of how the young ladies of good families prepare themselves for the life of housewife of the house. The interest of notebooks, however, lies above all in the language used, which differs from the one that has become standard in culinary recipes. The language used is close to spoken language and there is no shortage of loanwords. After a description of the notebook, the language and style of some recipes are specifically examined. It is a private document that constitutes, however, an example of how people ate or wanted to eat in the 1940s of the twentieth century.

O rękopiśmiennym spisie literatek autorstwa Adama Bartoszewicza z połowy XIX wieku

Author(s): Maria Berkan-Jabłońska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

This article deals with two manuscripts preserved in the State Archive in Łódź, in collection number 592 of the Bartoszewicz Family Archive, written by Adam Bartoszewicz, the senior of the family: Excellent Polish Women, Especially Famous in History as well as in the Literary Field and The Inventory of Famous Polish Women, namely Literary Scholars Alphabetically Arranged by A.[dama] B.[artoszewicz] 1859 [– name index]. Their common denominator is the history of Polish women, with an emphasis on literary and translation works up to the 1870s. The purpose of the draft is to describe the contents of two manuscripts in terms of how the author created a potential dictionary, its sources of information, press queries and the shape of the inventory. It is not known what publishing plans were associated with the briefs, but they can be treated as important source material in the history of the construction of knowledge about women’s writing through the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

Stare i nowe… Ossolińskie zbiory spuścizny Henryka Sienkiewicza

Author(s): Agnieszka Kuniczuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

The archives collecting the heritage of Henryk Sienkiewicz are scattered throughout Poland. The collections include physical items such as business cards, personal items, books and clothing, as well as the writer’s manuscripts. The author of the article discusses and describes the contents of the Ossolinsky Collection, which can be divided into two parts: The first – manuscripts and briefs collected in the middle of the 20th century, and the second – new additions, recovered by the Ossolineum in 2018. This new Henryk Sienkiewicz Archive changes somewhat the profile of the stored memorabilia and souvenirs. It’s no longer just manuscripts and letters, but photographs, as well as personal items of the writer and mementos of Sienkiewicz’s loved ones.

Bruno Schulz – pisarz bez archiwum? Medialne i archiwistyczne spojrzenie na przyszłość schulzologii

Author(s): Alicja Sułkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

The research on the works of Bruno Schulz is, without a doubt, a challenging task. Not only is it impossible to recreate longer periods of the artist’s life, but also both his correspondence and even actual novels were destroyed during the Second World War. For precisely this reason, one may say, the complete Schulz-Archive does not exist. A writer, whose work and story did not leave behind a particular back up in a form of an archive, morphs with time into a medial entity, inseparably connected to the gesture of narration building. In the course of the last decades for instance, the discourse of the Holocaust and Polish memory culture started to dominate Schulz’s biography.Exploring the meaning of an archive in the work and biography of Bruno Schulz, the article aims at answering the question regarding the possible interpretation of the lapses in the documentation of his life and their significance for the creation of an intermedial Schulz-myth. With the help of the theories from archive and media studies, the text offers a detailed glance at modern Schulz reception, comparing the biographical trends to the tendencies of Holocaust history and European memory culture.

MAKING AN ELEPHANT BY GRAHAM SWIFT: EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO EXTERNAL REALITY

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2024

The purpose of the present paper is to look at the essay Making an Elephant by Graham Swift from the point of view of connections between external and internal realities. Various objects, places, and landscapes are connected by Swift to the memories of his father and of his relationship to him. The father is presented in the larger family context and life. Physical, concrete objects are there as substitutes for the loss of the loved person, at least to some extent. Free associations help create the connection between objects, emotions, and perceptions of the relationship with loved persons. Through reader response criticism, we can understand that readers can not only emotionally relate to the experience of the author, but they can also start making free associations themselves with their memories of Swift’s other works. Their minds work in the same way as Swift’s in this essay, since they can remember similar elements such as objects invested with emotional meaning in his fiction.

THE UNIVERSE OF PROSE

Author(s): Teodora-Mihaela Botezan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

The universe of prose is meant to be a volume that goes around the world, it is not only a volume that analyzes and gives meanings to some works, but also penetrates into the biography of the authors, trying in this way, perhaps, to understand the author’s the style and language. Through this volume, like all his other volumes dedicated to prose, Nicolae Balotă tries to recover a lost time, the philosophy of Balotă's writing being a simple one, which he proposes with each of his publications: only through art and reading, you can understand the mentality of an era. It can be noticed the note of interdisciplinarity and intertextuality that Nicolae Balotă gives to the volume, his essays having references to visual arts, paintings, movies or even other texts. For the erudite, reading means not only the careful reading and analysis of some texts, but also the establishment of clear connections between them and other arts.

THE AMBIVALENT NATURE OF INTIMATE WRITING. PRIVATE DIARY BETWEEN ORDINARY PRACTICE AND LITERATURE

Author(s): Carmen-Ancuța Morari / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

Like a chameleon that adopts different shades to camouflage itself, but also to communicate, the private diary is considered a subjective text without a fixed position, constantly oscillating between history (reality) and literature. The two poles between which this multiform writing constantly moves have become the central subject of academic research in the field of diarism, following which two positions become important for the present study. The distinct theories established show not only the complexity and paradox of the journal, but also the ambivalence of academic researchers. If, on the one hand, the private diary is analyzed as an insignificant discourse, on the other hand, the diary acquires a privileged status, whether it is a literary or an ordinary one.

Prometeu în viziune romantică și neoromantică

Author(s): Costina Denisa Bărbuceanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2024

The Promethean vision of Shelley and Al. Philippides springs from the same Greeksource, Aeschylus and Hesiod, but, along the way, undergoes modifications,according to the face and likeness of each poet, in part, because the poets, putting onthe coat and the Promethean mask, and play differently, depending on the interiorof each one, rebelling – however, in unison, against any external and internalauthority or oppression, by borrowing the Promethean howl, to which they givedifferent valences. Shelley's tragic poem preserves the Greek heritage, the legenditself, to a point, for Shelley's verses are not a genealogical presentation but clothethemselves in self-consciousness and tragedy, in the four acts of the poem thatdeserve its title as a masterpiece. Shelley reserves a personal and imaginative viewof human nature: „The images I have used will be found in many illustrations, andhave been drawn from the processes of the human mind (...)” (our translation) of thefatality of life and destiny to which mortals are subjected to.

THE GOOD SENSE AS HERESY

Author(s): Nicoleta Sălcudeanu / Language(s): English Issue: 37/2024

The subversion of Professor Martin's essays lies precisely in the fact that he equally defends the evidence, the fake and the truth, posing, in turn, in the body of each of them. The great elegance of the approach rises from the tolerant, pluralistic and dialogical vision of the evidence; from the strength to empathize even with evil, precisely to understand it to its fullest extent. As a man of nuances, he slips into the cloak of radicalism not to destroy it, but to understand it, because "in a confrontation of opinions or ideas, in everyday life or in intellectual disputes, nuance implies a strengthening of one's own positions by even the respect shown to opposing positions; withdrawal is actually a safer repositioning.

ENGRAMS. THE TENDENCY TO INCORPORATE THE CRITICAL SELF INTO THE BEING OF THE WORK

Author(s): Alexandrina Cocan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

I. Negoițescu gathers in the volume „Engrams” a number of critical notes written between 1970-1972 and published in various magazines. To engram refers to the ability to fixate and express critical ideas and not just the ability to formulate them.

THE EUPHORION

Author(s): Teodora-Mihaela Botezan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

The Euphorion is the first volume of essays that the critic will publish, being more of a manifesto book since he begins the critical approach by clearly defining the concept of art, then meditating on the concept of criticism, in order to finally propose a personal style of criticism. In this volume the critic pleads for the autonomy of the essay and will theorize hermeneutic criticism as "the art of opening the work", the first step being precisely finding the right keys to open and decipher the secrets of an artistic work. The critic will bring up the famous dispute between Calinescians and anti-Calinescians, emphasizing the idea of Calinescian criticism which lacks precisely these keys to fit the work. The Euphorion volume is built according to certain principles and directions aimed at freedom of expression and the evolution of the critic, as Balotă considered that the value of a critic increases when he succeeds in proposing readings, hence the wish of the exegete to broaden his cultural horizon, proposing the works foreign authors and philosophers (Dante, Saint-John Perse, Eliot, Joyce, Becket, etc.).

THE MAN OF PARADOXES: MIHAIL SEBASTIAN

Author(s): Catinca Oncescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

The present article makes a brief presentation of Mihail Sebastian’s Journal. Written in turbulent times, the Journal offers us not only the portrait of the writer, the Jew and the man Mihail Sebastian, but also the portrait of an anti-Semite Romania, torn between different political ideologies. The Journal turns out to be a valuable piece of writing both for a literary critic and for a historian, giving us a picture of an entire world in its darkest times. After making a short presentation of Sebastian’s biography, in order to understand the man behind the writer, we go on into analysing the diary as a literary genre in general and Sebastian’s diary in particular. Thus, our attention turns to the Journal itself as a document which creates the image of the writer and of his époque.

PAUL ZARIFOPOL: CRITICAL RECEPTION. AN EXCEPTIONAL, STRANGE AND PREMATURE APPEARANCE

Author(s): Anca Rusu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

One of the most paradoxical spirits of his time, Paul Zarifopol has been intensely discussed by literary critics. Perceived as an exceptional, strange and premature apparition, his writings have both impressed and irritated. A complex personality of Romanian criticism and essayism, placed under the seal of multiple hypostases and perceived by literary criticism in terms of opposition, Paul Zarifopol not only represented the effervescent spirit of the time, devoted entirely to the pen, but he brought with him the whole example of a life lived out of the limelight, with trials and challenges, but which has risen by its intrinsic strength, by the model of courage and confidence it inspires. He dedicated his whole life to writing, he was both appreciated and criticized, but what has remained in his pages with the passage of time is precisely the verve and enthusiasm he made his creations with, making each letter vibrate according to its rhythm. The lifespan of his texts is prolonged by the passion with which he wrote, by his iconoclastic spirit sometimes pushed to extremes, by the erudition he conveyed in every sentence and by the authenticity of the ideas he projected in polemic games, stirring his opponents into real literary battles, concluded in frothy and tasty dialogues.

IDENTITIES UNDER THE SEAL OF THE LETTER. CARAGIALE & EMINESCU - TWO TYPES OF EPISTOLARY SOCIABILITY

Author(s): Smărăndița-Elena Costin / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

This paper delves into the epistolary exchanges of two pivotal figures in Romanian literature, Mihai Eminescu and Ion Luca Caragiale, situating their correspondences within the framework of 19th-century sociocultural dynamics. Eminescu's letters are marked by a profound introspective disposition, engaging deeply with philosophical, existential themes. His epistolary style reflects a solitary intellectual rigor, grappling with the ontological and socio-political intricacies of his era. Conversely, Caragiale's correspondences are characterized by an extroverted and socially perceptive narrative, imbued with acerbic wit, irony, and a nuanced critique of contemporary societal norms. Through a meticulous comparative analysis of their epistolary methodologies, this study elucidates the divergent modes of sociability embodied in their writings. It underscores how their distinct epistolary practices not only reflect their individual literary personas but also encapsulate broader epistemological and cultural currents of 19th-century Romania. This exploration offers a nuanced understanding of their literary legacies and provides critical insights into the intellectual and cultural landscapes they navigated.

„HAPPINESS” IN THE CARCERAL SPACE – AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FULFILLMENT AND SPIRITUAL ELEVATION

Author(s): Adriana Maria Călugăr (Cutean) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

In the article „Happiness” in the carceral space - an opportunity for fulfillment and spiritual elevation, a complex structure is highlighted, used by many former prisoners, including Nicolae Steinhardt in his Journal of Happiness. Specifically, it highlights the significance of the events and experiences during the detention period for those who were incarcerated in the communist prison system in Romania. The time spent by those imprisoned in communist prisons in Romania had a significant impact on them. Many former prisoners have stated and testified that the years spent in the communist carceral space in Romania represented true moments of self-surpassing, self-knowledge, fulfillment, and rediscovery. Therefore, former prisoners considered the carceral experience an opportunity to live unique emotions and feelings, a chance for fulfillment and self-surpassing. They shaped their characters and overcame the hardships of carceral life with stoicism. The memoirs belonging to the literature of the Romanian Gulag convey the authentic emotion and experience of those who chose to share the uniqueness of the carceral experience through writing.

THREE CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN JEWISH ESSAYISTS: LEON VOLOVICI, ANDREI OIȘTEANU, ANDREI CORNEA

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): English Issue: 38/2024

Jewish writer from Romania, Leon Volovici proves, in his books, a demand for clarification of controversial issues, as the foundations of the most stringent writing. An intellectual of great stature and scope, Leon Volovici has distinguished himself as a literary historian with a strong ethical vocation, through an approach of probity and concern for the foundations of truth. Andrei Oișteanu is one of the most reputed contemporary Romanian intellectuals, specialized in cultural anthropology, ethnic imagology and history of religions. He is a Jewish intellectual of the rare lineage of demanding and refined scholars, which Romanian culture urgently needs in order to re-examine its stereotypes and complexes. With an inexhaustible publicistic verve and an impeccable logical disposition, Andrei Cornea exposes, in the subtext or in the text of his books, crucial, defining ideas for the world we live in, for the dialogue with the past or for the continuous confrontation with a decentralized present.

Carpe diem (13)

Author(s): Francisko Kocsis / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10-11/2024

A Collection of Aforisms Selected by Kocsis Francisko.