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Lorand Gaspar à la croisée des langues, des cultures et des disciplines

Introduction La ville de Târgu-Mureş en Roumanie a légué l’une des voix les plus authentiques et les plus originales de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. Lauréat de grands prix littéraires, dont Guillaume Apollinaire (1967) et Goncourt de la poésie (1998), Lorand Gaspar, poète, traducteur, historien, photographe ainsi que remarquable médecin chirurgien, y voit le jour le 28 février 1925. Sa naissance dans une famille hongroise d’origine arménienne, ainsi que son contact direct avec la culture roumaine, lui ont permis de développer un enracinement culturel aussi riche que diversifié. Cette sensibilité à la pluralité culturelle a toujours imprégné son parcours personnel, professionnel et créatif, jalonné de vicissitudes existentielles et littéraires. Après avoir… Read More »Lorand Gaspar à la croisée des langues, des cultures et des disciplines

Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures

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„The essays contained in this collection may be generally subsumed under a few large themes: internal and external exile, real or perceived, a broad 20th century European aesthetics of poetry and prose, and bridging the understanding of masterful works of literature from either side of the Atlantic that follow particular patterns of expression. The endeavour to find commonality in these pieces is the work of comparativist Rodica Grigore, professor of literature at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania. Transnational aesthetics, shaped by common philosophical sources, are noted in this work: European modernism was introduced to Latin America in the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, from which all contemporary and successive… Read More »Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures

Călătorii și literatură/ Călătorii în literatură.

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„Călătorii și literatură/ Călătorii în literatură. Proza latino-americană a secolului XX în cinci ipostaze” de Rodica Grigore „Cartea aceasta este (încă) o călătorie prin fascinantul domeniu al literaturii latino-americane. Fără să-și fi propus a fi exhaustiv, demersul de față vizează câteva creații reprezentative pentru tema aleasă, recitind opera unor scriitori care au marcat prima jumătate a secolului XX și deceniile care au urmat, însă depășind numeroase clișee ale receptării critice de până acum, pentru a evidenția modul în care călătoriile întreprinse de personaje sunt în permanență dublate, în plan simbolic, de cele ale unor autori deciși să-și descopere, iar apoi să-și afirme individualitatea și profunda originalitate. Astfel, de la José Eustasio… Read More »Călătorii și literatură/ Călătorii în literatură.

Canonul (im)perfecțiunilor. Excurs comparatist

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Ioana Pavel, Canonul (im)perfecțiunilor. Excurs comparatist, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cărții de Știință, 2024 Între absolutizarea canonului și relativizarea acestuia, există o zonă ideatică percutantă pentru care Ioana Pavel are aplecare inclusiv atunci când discută varietatea gustului critic, ierarhiile impuse ori destrămate cu tendință, relația centru-margine în care canonul este chestionat. Din acest unghi, și numai cuprinsul acestei cărți foarte speculative este emblematic, prin gradele și dozările conotative care sunt suculente, iscusite și marcate de o ironie aristocratică, aș spune. Cât despre arborescența ideilor, aceasta este impresionantă. Erudiția, spiritul combinativ, dar și selectiv, predilecția pentru dialogul conceptual și, nu în ultimul rând, direcția comparatistă fac ca prima parte, cea teoretică, a cercetării, să fie… Read More »Canonul (im)perfecțiunilor. Excurs comparatist

GIRL, INTERRUPTED

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GIRL, INTERRUPTEDTestimonies, Silences and Self-Censorshipin European Women’s Life Writing Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 24-25, 2025The Faculty of Letters, “Babeș-Bolyai” University“Sextil Pușcariu” Institute, The Romanian Academy, Cluj BranchCall for PapersWhile Life Writing as an umbrella genre has been increasingly popular in both Eastern and Western Europe, it took longer for women’s personal narratives, including memoirs, diaries or correspondence, to get the same attention. The conference aims to stir the interest of specialists in Life Writing, Literature, Memory and Trauma Studies, Gender and Youth Studies in Eastern and Western Europe in order to fill in the gap, and focus on what is becoming a literary boom phenomenon, as in the last decade female… Read More »GIRL, INTERRUPTED

LITERARY ADAPTATIONS AND THE IMAGINARY

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Online or at 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania; June 19th –21th, 2025Since ancient times, artists have transformed, reinterpreted, and reimagined folk tales and myths in a variety of forms, genres, and media. From the seemingly straightforward adaptation of a text into a film, a play, or a new literary work to the more subtle appropriation of style or meaning, one could argue that all texts are, in some way, part of a broader ensemble of already established texts and artistic forms. In the contemporary era, the cinematic adaptation of literary works stands as the most popular and widely recognized expression of this process. Your papers may fall… Read More »LITERARY ADAPTATIONS AND THE IMAGINARY

Voices and Silences: 50 years of the Society for Romanian Studies

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Call for Papers Voices and Silences: 50 years of the Society for Romanian Studies29-31 May 2025Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaThe 2025 Triennial Conference of the SRS in Cluj-Napoca will mark 50 years since the creation of the Society for Romanian Studies. This moment in the life of the society calls us to celebrate the achievements and advances in Romanian studies of the past five decades but also for critical reflection on the purpose and contribution of Romanian Studies in a rapidly changing academic and intellectual context. On the occasion of this important gathering we also take the opportunity to imagine a Romanian studies of the future, and indeed the… Read More »Voices and Silences: 50 years of the Society for Romanian Studies

Integrated Modernism. Echinox Journal, no 47

The 47th issue of the Echinox Journal Integrated Modernisms edited by Amalia Cotoi, Francesca Caraceni, Anna Dijkstra, Anca Chiorean, Anandita Pan is out; The volume critically contextualizes current discussions on ‘New Modernisms’ from various geopolitical perspectives and temporalities, while also questioning recent significant attempts to theorize what is modern in today’s literary and cultural contemporaneity.

Anarchetypes.

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Anarchetypes. Re-evaluation of marginal literary forms and genres/ Corin Braga (ed.) This volume starts from the observation that in the current era the concept of archetype and structural center have been denounced as intellectual constructs without a real metaphysical or psychological basis. However, based on their authority and prestige, they have substantiated the most important aesthetics in European culture, being used as a criterion of value and canonical judgment and condemning to marginality works and literary genres that do not respect the Aristotelian idea of ​​organic composition. In order to reevaluate and recover such “anarchic” literary forms and genres, this volume resumes and develops the concept of anarchetype created by… Read More »Anarchetypes.

Echinox Journal no. 39

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Subversions and Censorship. The Relationship between the Writer and Power during the Century of Dictatorships Coordinateur : Emilia David Editeur : Phantasma. Centre de Recherches sur l’Imaginaire Université Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Roumanie ISBN 1582-960X (Romania) Sommaire/Summary Emilia David, Introduction Prospettive nell’analisi critica della letteratura romena e della censura ai tempi del regime comunista Mircea Martin, De l’esthétisme socialiste Liviu Malița, The Self-Portrait of Censorship in Socialist Romania Ruxandra Cesereanu, La biographie de la censure en Roumanie à travers le regard de trois chercheurs: Adrian Marino, Liviu Malița, Liliana Corobca Corina Croitoru, Censure communiste et dérision poétique Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, Masterpieces in an Inferno. Censorship in Cold War Translation Experiences (Micaela Ghițescu’s and Antoaneta Ralian’s Memoirs) Cenni storici all’interno del rapporto fra la cultura… Read More »Echinox Journal no. 39