Modalités d’imposer la critique marxiste dans les premières années du communisme roumain*

Author(s): Ioana (Andrei Grigor) Nicolae,Simona Marin / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2010

Beginning with the year 1948, the political and cultural Romanian newspapers display an ideological conflict held by the followers of the Soviet Marxist politics against the aesthetics of the decadent burgoisie. Such errors as formalism, cosmopolitism and impresionism which subversively guide the aesthetic criticism are banned by the new critics who plead for re-reading the classical text in an ideological mirror.

Eşti COOL şi dacă vorbeşti corect

Author(s): Gina Aurora Necula / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2010

Începând din anul 2007, ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ prin INSTITUTUL DE LINGVISTICĂ „IORGU IORDAN – AL. ROSETTI” s-a alăturat Consiliului Naţional al Audiovizualului în acţiunea de monitorizare a posturilor de radio şi televiziune privind calitatea limbii folosite în diverse emisiuni. Această colaborare a dus la alcătuirea Raportului de consultanţă care se face public anual şi care, în anul 2010, a stat la baza editării unei cărţi destinate elevilor, în principal. Din echipa de cercetători care a interpetat datele monitorizării fac parte: Blanca Croitor, Andreea Dinică, Adina Dragomirescu, AnaMaria Mihail, Carmen Mîrzea Vasile, Isabela Nedelcu, Alexandru Nicolae, Irina Nicula, coordonator Rodica Zafiu, iar monitorizarea a vizat 12 posturi de televiziune (TVR 1, Antena 1, Pro TV, Realitatea TV, Prima TV, TVR 2, TVR Cultural, Kanal D, Antena 3, B1 TV, OTV şi N24 Plus) şi două posturi de radio (Radio România Actualităţi şi Europa FM), alese în funcţie de: audienţă, acoperire naţională, pondere a emisiunilor informative şi de dezbatere, asumarea unui rol cultural şi educativ.

Revolta ocultată sau despre revirimentul poetic al amintirii – Norman Manea, Vorbind pietrei

Author(s): Marian Antofi / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2015

The poem entitled Vorbind pietrei / Talking to a stone turns into an original lyrical version mirroring Norman Manea's spiritual - scriptural - biographic quest, in fact a text talking about life and death, about human condition and the power of writing to transgress time. Contextually related to the funeral stone with which the outcast lyrically and metaphorically talks - actually to eternal pain - the book (the Holy one and those following It) esthetically redefines death and human degradation beyond any limits - acting as an exorcist mechanism at the same time.

The French Feminine Pattern in the 19th Century Romanian Prose

Author(s): Ramona Mihăilă / Language(s): English Issue: 4-II/2010

Cet article essaie d’analyser les facteurs modeleurs de la construction de l’identité des personnages féminins dans la prose roumaine du XIXe à travers un modèle français qui apparaît dans plusieurs écrits. Je vais développer ce sujet à travers trois perspectives : une perspective socioculturelle et historique qui met en discussion la transition de la société rurale/agraire à la société urbaine/industrielle; une perspective qui met en discussion l’estompage des conventions et des stéréotypies dans la représentation de la féminité moyennant le passage du romantisme au réalisme et une perspective comparative entre la littérature et la culture roumaine et la littérature et la culture française : perspectives comparatives des sujets que les écrivains roumains et français ont choisis: stratégies du discours féministe, indépendance économique des femmes, conformité sociale et accomplissement personnel ou personnages féminins et milieu rural/urbaine.

Eugen Ionescu - the theatre of human psychology and social identity

Author(s): Iuliana Barna / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2011

Eugène Ionesco est l’auteur d’une écriture authentique, qui occupe une place importante dans l’histoire de la littérature roumaine, parce qu’elle peint des personnages liés à leur époque, mais qui, en fait, sont l’expression d’une humanité insufissante, limitée. C’est pourquoi on peut affirmer qu’une oeuvre littéraire de certe valeur esthétique se situe au carrefour du temps et de l’éternité.

Identité, totalitarisme et résistance. Sorana Gurian, Les Mailles du filet

Author(s): Elena FILOTE (PANAIT) / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2013

Le journal de Roumanie de Sorana Gurian, tenu entre les années1947 et 1949, se présente premièrement comme un témoignage toujoursvivant de l’absurdité inhumaine du régime communiste. La contiguïté de sonexistence avec une histoire tragique détermine l’écrivaine, autrement expartisanede l’idéologie communiste, à prendre conscience, avec une amèrelucidité, de la dégénérescence progressive de son profil identitaire. Réfugiéeà Paris, Sorana Gurian publiera ce journal en 1950, aux éditions Calmann-Lévy. Le livre apparaît en roumain en 2002, comme supplément de la revueJurnalul literar. La démarche diaristique de Sorana Gurian de Les mailles dufilet a, dans sa structure de surface, une véritable valeur documentaire, mais,au-delà de celle-ci, le sondage de l’intimité auctoriale exhibe une pluralitéd’identités, assumées ou rejetées, parfois incompatibles, impossible à unifierdans une image homogène.

Цветът в поезията на Милтос Сатурис и Кирил Кадийски

Author(s): Kalliopi Ioannis Theodorakaki / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

The motivation behind this project generated in the classes I attended as an undergraduate student; these classes inspired me to get more closely involved with the poetry of Miltos Sachtouris, on a much deeper level. In the context of the class devoted to “Bulgarian Literature and Cultural Review” (this lesson was taught by Mrs. Stefania Filipova-Metzimeki) in our postgraduate program of the Department of Balcan, Slavic and Oriental Studies“ History, Anthropology and Culture in Eastern and South- eastern Europe” I decided to indulge in the color motive within the poetry of M. Sachtouris, and – comparatively – within the poetry of Kiril Kadiisky. So that I could better understand the latter, I have studied the one and only study I managed to discover, written in French. Yet, it proved to be more than helpful in understanding some quite important meanings in his poetry As for the poetry of M. Sachtouris, the number of the available sources was quite large. Still, I was not interested in recycling the already existing projects.

„Из кривините“ – с образа на Апостола (Една литературноисторическа мозайка)

Author(s): Trayana Lateva,Stoyanka Kuntova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

Einführung in die Linguistik und in die sprachwissenschaftliche Bohemistik

Author(s): Martin Henzelmann / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2018

Analiza stylistyczna nazewnictwa w Księgach narodu i pielgrzymstwa polskiego Adama Mickiewicza

Author(s): Łucja Maria Szewczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/1993

Die Analyse von Namen fremder Provenienz in Księgi narodu i pielgrzymstwa polskiego hat gezeigt, daß sie eine wichtige stilistische Kategorie darstellen. Die genannten Namen wurden hier auf biblische Art stilisiert. Man kann sie in echt biblische Namen und in stilisierte Namen einteilen. Es überwiegen Namen hebräischer und griechischer Herkunft. Sie befinden sich meist im entsprechend stilisierten Kontext. Auf Archaisierung deuten u. a. auch bestimmte grammatische Formen hin, wie z. B. Żydy (=Akk. Pl.), Żydowie, Filistynowie ( = Nom. Pl.), w Polszczę (=L ok. Sg. Fem.). Die Eigennamen und Deskriptionen spielen hier solche Funktionen wie die poetische, anspielende, lokal und temporal anberaumende, wertende und die expressive. Besonders wichtige Funktion kommt der poetischen und der anspieelnden zu, wodurch ein Zusammenhang mit der Bibel, Authentizität und vor allem besondere Ausdruckskraft erzielt werden konnten.

Kasztelanka na wydaniu. Małżeńskie perypetie Elżbiety z Branickich Sapieżyny

Author(s): Szymon Piotr Dąbrowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (10)/2017

The article introduces the circumstances surrounding the beginnings and ends of marriages of Elżbieta Branicka coat of arms Korczak (1732/33–1800) with two members of the Sapieha family – Jan Józef Kalasanty, the voivode of Smolensk, and Jan, the voivode of Mścisław. The work includes a discussion and elaboration of scarce pieces of information concerning the time of her birth and the period preceding her first marriage. It also presents an analysis of the original assignment of „Teatrum myśli…” (1780) by Wenanty Tyszkowski, which focuses on a lady‘s glorious portrait in her maiden age. The main part of the article is opened by the presentation of the state of knowledge about the castellan’s daughter marriages. It is followed by a critical reading of unknown or superficially exploited sources revealing the backstage of these relationships: press reports on wedding ceremonies and the death of her second husband, the Latin decree of the church court in the case of annulment of the first marriage, a draft of an insurance script, in which the bride’s parents determined the amount and conditions for paying her dowry, fragments of Marcin Matuszewicz’s memories and letters from spouses addressed to Jan Klemens Branicki, Grand Crown Hetman. The context for new findings are conclusions and suggestions of researchers of the 18th century magnates of Poland and Lithuania.

Sad and Rabid Puppies: Politicization of the Hugo Award Nomination Procedure

Author(s): Anna Oleszczuk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Originally a conservative genre, in the second half of the twentieth century, science fiction (sf) became a discourse whose progressive presentation of virtually all controversial political issues and critical questioning of the political status quo have remained unmatched in the so-called popular culture, among others. There is no other literary convention that so boldly challenges such issues as racism, sexism, social justice, and ecological devastation. However, the progressive stance of many science fiction writers, editors, and readers has been, in recent years, challenged by loose coalitions of groups calling themselves Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies, who have acted against what they perceive as the repression of more traditional voices in science fiction communities. The paper will seek to explore recent political shifts within the science fiction fandom, with regard to oppression involving gender, class, race, and ethnicity. I will provide an account of the fandom’s political tensions, disentangle some of the convoluted discussions that have taken place across blogs, Twitter accounts, and Facebook pages of those involved in these debates, and specifically address the controversies related to the 2014 and 2015 Hugo Awards. I will also attempt to illuminate the violent conservative backlash that the aforementioned groups launched against the perceived political correctness and repression of certain viewpoints within sf communities.

„Chcę rozmawiać”. Autopsychoterapeutyczne funkcje narracji Justyny Bargielskiej i Anny Starobiniec o utracie perinatalnej

Author(s): Irina Adelgejm / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The article discusses a unique experience of death such as a perinatal loss described in „Obsoletki” by Justyna Bargielska and „Spójrz na niego” by Anna Starobiniec. The author of the article analyses the ways in which narration aims at assimilating the traumatic experience (in Bargielska’s writing: ‘cataloguing’ the pain of other mothers, ‘a split screen’, adapting external observer’s point of view, dividing the trauma into separate elements, lack of logic; in Starobiniec’s writing: externalization of the loss by the experience of mourning, ‘recreating’ lost relations; in both authors’ creativity: connecting life and death, placing loss in the story of life, conventional endings).

„Pamięć nie wybacza”. O „Białej Rice” Magdaleny Parys

Author(s): Natalia Żórawska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

“Biała Rika” („White Rika”, 2016) presents the trauma of a third generation. Magdalena Parys, referring to autobiographical motifs, recalls past events – the difficult childhood of the main character, specific family relations, and the tragic experiences of a so-called grandmother. The author of the article discusses the types of trauma connected with the experience of war, unsuccessful relationships within a family and the period of growing up. She concentrates on female characters, as the women in „Biała Rika” represent a wide variety of women with different features and values. The aim of the article is to interpret „Biała Rika” in the context of post-trauma with past torments and the work of memory always in the background of one’s consciousness.

Przemiany bohatera w powojennym kinie polskim – od Supermana do Wonder Woman

Author(s): Agnieszka Tambor / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The article presents the evolution of the heroes in Polish cinema after the Second World War, as well as while showing the characters that influenced the social awareness of Poles, it reveals those which have been created in response to the social needs. Although the Polish postwar cinema for decades used to be exclusively masculine, lately this tendency changed, and thus for, the author shows that the features and attributes of male characters have been transferred to the female characters by the scenarists and film directors.

Przemiany profilu partnerki w stereotypie d z i e w c z y n y

Author(s): Maria Wacławek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The article aims at presenting part of the research that has been done on the stereotypes of a ‘girlfriend’ (Polish: ‘dziewczyna’). The research is based on letters published in Polish magazines for teenagers at the end of the communist regime and in the first decades of the 21st century. Partner profiling is an important element of the reconstructed stereotype. The description follows analysis of the traditional image of a female partner, which is based on an analysis of Polish proverbs. The research reveals many elements typical of the traditional model, especially the culturally accepted passive attitude of girls (especially in the Polish People’s Republic period). Modification of the model appears in a later period: freedom of customs, sexual awareness, and behaviour that is more liberated (based on letters written from the beginning of the 21st century).

W poszukiwaniu paradygmatu, czyli wokół problemu granic obiektywizacji metody badawczej. Prolegomena do literaturoznawstwa eksperymentalnego

Author(s): Marek Sznajder / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The article discusses the problem of objectivity in humanistic (literary) research methodology. A starting point is Thomas Khun’s question concerning conditions that would initiate a paradigm. The author of the article refers to considerations on the influence of bodily integrity (attributes and modes of ‘the matter’) and on human thinking (on what can be logically thought). The author follows the path of logic investigations that lead to the concept of experimental literary criticism (three-dimensional reading of the texts), which is closely connected with the recently forgotten idea of truth, as defined by Charles Sanders Peirce.

Petko Todorov’s Plays and the Poetics of European Symbolism

Author(s): Dina Mantcheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The paper examines Petko Todorov’s five symbolist plays (Masons, Strahil the Redoubtable Haidout, The Fairy, Bride Boryana, and Dragon’s Wedding) from the perspective of European symbolist drama to emphasize their common aesthetic principles and their specific originality. The comparative analysis thus defined leads to the conclusion that Petko Todorov’s works follows the structural principles of Symbolist drama yet they have their own specifics. The unconventional structure of the dramatic action and dialogue; the wide use of music and painting in the staging of the plays as well as their new genre form make Todorov’s works akin to the francophone Symbolist model. On the other hand, the moral dimension and the pervading national atmosphere in the Bulgarian dramas betray their indebtedness to the Russian Symbolist drama. Finally, the de-valorisation of the fantastic characters and the playing down of Romantic and realistic elements in Petko Todorov’s dramas are totally unknown to the European Symbolist theatre. In this way, Petko Todorov’s dramas are a peculiar combination of Symbolist poetics and influences of the Bulgarian national context. They follow their own development and contribute hereby to the specific evolution of the Bulgarian modernist theatre.

Teaching Literary Translation at Tertiary Level: the Case of Scandinavian Studies at Sofia University

Author(s): Ivan Y. Tenev / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The paper outlines some of the challenges translation training at university level is faced with, drawing on examples from the Scandinavian Studies Programme of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski whose model of literary translation training has already yielded some impressive results. The boom of translations of fiction from the Nordic languages in the last decades, however, calls for streamlining literary translation curriculum to tackle both specific problems of foreign language teaching at the Programme (related mainly to acquiring several Nordic languages simultaneously) and more general ones – the deteriorating command of the Bulgarian language among students and the lack of motivation for upholding the traditionally very high standards for rendering a foreign work of fiction into Bulgarian.

МОЖЕ ЛИ БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА ДА УСПЕЕ НА НЕМСКОЕЗИЧНИЯ ПАЗАР?

Author(s): Thomas Frahm / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Due to the existence of an endless number of prejudices among Bulgarian intellectuals coupled with the paranoia that Bulgaria and its writers are being intentionally neglected by the world at large, the author of this article reveals the most influential factors that contribute to literary success, or failure thereof, among German-speaking readers and literary critics. He concludes that contemporary Bulgarian writers are inclined to either follow the Anglo-American pattern of fiction writing, or focus on their domestic cultural tradition, thus paying no attention to the universal human qualities and patterns of behaviour that would enable readers all over the world to indetify with their works. Toward its end, the paper points out a few specifics of Milena Kirova’s History of Bulgarian literature that have rendered the volume (in its German translation) valuable to the German-speaking audience.