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Mihail Dragomirescu și dialogurile morților: în căutarea poporului care lipsește
Full text linkRomanian critic Mihail Dragomirescu (1868-1942) chose to present his philosophical system in the form of dialogues of the dead. The book appeared in 1929 under the title Philosophical Dialogues. Integralism, and contains 44 numbered dialogues with 8 interlocutors. Other dialogues, however, had been published seven years earlier in the cultural and political press, covering topics related to polemics, critical debates, or even satire. The study focuses on the complex issues involved in the revival of an ancient genre invented by Lucian of Samosata and developed in the form of ephemera, pamphlets and colportage literature between the 17th and 18th centuries. The main question concerns the role that the dialogues of the dead play in problematizing a changing society in the context of post-World War I Romania. Emphasizing the significance of time and anachronism in the dialogues of the dead, the paper investigates, based on the reflections of Giorgio Agamben, Georges Di-di-Huberman and Vinciane Despret, the elaboration of perspectives on the common and the imaginary deployment of a “People”
Literary Modernism and Modernity in Romania. Recomposed Community and Past/Present Filiation Models
Full text linkDrawing upon Modernist and Kinship Studies, this essay argues that nowadays community is not dissolved by modernity, nor was it century ago. Literary modernism is one of the places where the modern urbanized community starts to be reassembled based more on ties of affinity than on consanguinity. Even though today this regrouping is more apparent due to the practices of digital coexistence provided by social networks, it was not less of a reality one century ago. Dezrădăcinare [Uprooting] (2022) by Sașa Zare, and Rădăcini [Roots] (1938) by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu have more things in common when it comes to memory and filiation than could be visible to the naked eye
Marius Popa, Andreea Bugiac (coord.), L’animal en littérature, entre fantaisie et fantastique, Casa Cărții de Știință, Cluj-Napoca 2022
No full textFiliaţie obligată. Eminescu în biblioteca interioară a Anei Blandiana
Full text linkThis study proposes a reflection on a poetic lineage (both difficult to circumscribe and unanimously accepted in the history of Romanian literature) between the Romantic Mihai Eminescu (object of a real cult of the “national poet”, but also a poet of the First Modernism) and Ana Blandiana, one of the most important figures of Romanian Late Modernism. I am resuming, on this occasion, some critical considerations I wrote some 30 years ago, on the “Eminescianism” of Ana Blandiana’s poetry, manifested mainly at the level of the literary imaginary – in order to add a few new examples and recontextualize it all, both from a theoretical point of view (intertextuality? imaginary libraries? affective stylistics?), as well as in terms of the clarifications offered, in the last three decades, by the poet herself
Il dizionario giusto al momento giusto
Full text linkThe present text aims to give a brief description of the recent Valentina Negritescu’s Dictionary, published by the Hoepli publishing house in Milan this year. A real editorial event, structured on 1648 pages, containing more than 70,000 title-words, with more than 140,000 meanings and more than 250,000 translations, for all those interested in the study of the Romanian language and literature: teachers, translators or simple readers, both Romanian and Italian. After a brief description of the publishing house and its main publications dedicated to the Romanian language, we will focus on the novelties that the dictionary brings. It is also an opportunity to bring back into discussion the role that the dictionary can play in the teaching of foreign languages, in light of the recent coordinates of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe
«Héritiers en mal d’ancêtres». L’art des archives et le récit de filiation
Full text linkThis article proposes an analysis of several photo projects by visual artist Andrei Nacu, who works with photography, the family album, and the family archive to rework experiences from the past. Simultaneously, it reflects on the interactions between image, history, and memory. The analysis employs the vocabulary of filiation, transmission, and inheritance commonly used in the humanities and the social sciences to understand contemporary ways of mourning related to catastrophes of the 20th century
The Adopted Child of the Latin Gens: Genealogical Imagery in B. Fundoianu’s Work
Full text linkRevisiting the dual, bio-cultural, imagery ingrained in B. Fundoianu’s essays, engendering a genealogical narrative of literary history, may help us re-evaluate B. Fundoianu’s vision on the Romanian identity, too hastily explained by the “selfcolonizing” metaphor. A double perspective, euchronistic and anachronistic, will be engaged to render the complexities and contradictions of his approach. While the biologist vocabulary sends back to the 19th-century essentialist philosophies of identity, the focus on the East-West encounters resulting in the hybridization of cultural heritages invites fresher re-readings from the standpoint of transnational theories
Alex Drace-Francis, Istoria mămăligii. Povestea globală a unui preparat național, tr. Anca Bărbulescu, Humanitas, București 2023
No full textSpaces of Drift: Unreconstructed Pasts in Șerban Savu’s Paintings
Full text linkThis paper analyses the metaphorical and structural idea of broken filiations and explores the possibilities of representation conveyed by a heteroge-neous historical position in post-communist Romania and, more generally, on the globalized scene of transitions. It tries to look at the discontinuous relation with the past from two dimensions: the re-negotiation of cultural identity in a post-industrial setting marked by a modernizing drive, drawn on the metaphor of the ‘orphan’, and the turn towards a classless world of the masses, generating conflicting forms of memory and representation. This broken cultural geography of linearity and genealogies dismantles the old structures that yielded place bound identities, generating an interstitial sense of temporality shaped by new forms of cultural mediation. The visual artistic language of Șerban Savu is illustrative for these theoretical ideas that try to comprehend the crisis of the subject at the dawn of a new globalized world, ‘fathering’ a present in ruins, marked by an underlying sense of inhabiting disinherited spatial and temporal frames