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The journal Analele Universităţii Bucureşti. Limba şi literatura română [Annals of the University of Bucharest. Romanian Language and Literature] publishes articles and reviews dealing with various and relevant philological topics in neighboring disciplines: linguistics regarding Romanian and/or other languages; Romanian literature; universal and comparative literature; theory of literature; Romanian and comparative folklore; cultural anthropology; it also encourages researches undertaken from a pluri- and interdisciplinary perspective, which place the Romanian language, literature, and culture in a broader theoretical and analytical framework. The journal is available both in print and electronic format (open access, on the webpage http://anale.litere.ro/index.html). The journal is indexed in various international data bases (Erih Plus, Ebsco, CEEOL, etc.) and is recognised by The National Council for Research in Higher Education (CNCS, B category).
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DOMNIȚA TOMESCU, 2024, Interferențe lingvistice. Studii și cercetări. Volum îngrijit de Ioana Jieanu, București, Editura Academiei Române, 477 p., ISBN 9789732738573
L’ouvrage dont il sera question ici représente un recueil de 56 études publiées par Domnița Tomescu au cours de sa carrière de 55 ans en tant que professeure d’université et chercheuse scientifique. Il s’agit de travaux parus à travers le temps – tant en Roumanie qu’à l’étranger – dans des prestigieuses revues de spécialité et des volumes collectifs. Bien qu’étant un recueil de textes, le volume est unitaire par la préoccupation constante de l’auteure pour la recherche interdisciplinaire visant l’onomastique en corrélation avec d’autres domaines (tels l’histoire, la géographie, la sociologie, la culture, etc.) par les stratégies méthodologiques qui combinent les approches synchronique et diachronique, par la rigueur de la documentation et la force de l’argumentation dans le cas des aspects controversés dans la littérature de spécialité. Le volume s’ouvre par deux textes signés par Ioana Jieanu, l’éditrice de l’ouvrage : un avantpropos (p. 5-6) qui présente brièvement les objectifs, la structure et le contenu de chaque section et un aperçu de l’activité scientifique, professionnelle et académique de Domnița Tomescu (p. 7-9).
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ANDREEA SOARE, 2023, Cuvintele, între fizic și metafizic, București, Pro Universitaria, 240 p., ISBN 978-606-26-1792-9
Lucrarea Cuvintele, între fizic și metafizic, scrisă de către Andreea Soare, constituie un demers singular în peisajul științific românesc actual, prin noutatea abordării interdisciplinare propuse. Caracterul inovator este, astfel, reprezentat de îmbinarea unor noțiuni canonice, referitoare la domeniul lingvisticii, cu informații nou apărute în studiul limbii, care își au originea în domenii și subdomenii științifice variate, precum antropologie, filosofie, fizică (cuantică), medicină, neuroștiințe sau psihologie.
LA BOUGRIE, LA BULGARIE MÉDIÉVALE, UNE TERRE D’HÉRÉSIES
The word Bogrie in the Occitan language, Bougrie in the Oïl language, Bulgaria in Latin, entered French literature between 1198 and 1213, when Pope Innocent III called for the fourth crusade in the East, this from August 15, 1198, and against the Albigensians, in the West, in 1207-1208. The term is used in French by Robert de Clari and by Geoffroy de Villehardouin in their respective accounts of the conquest of Constantinople in 1204; then in Occitan by William of Tuledo and his anonymous successor in the Canso de la Crosada, the Song of the Albigensian Crusade between 1208 and 1219; and, finally, in Latin, in their chronicles, by Pierre des Vaux de Cernay and by William of Puylaurens, two witnesses of these events. The expression arises again in literature, in France and in Central and Eastern Europe, from 1965. How was “Bougrie”, medieval Bulgaria, evoked in these writings, by historians and writers, as a land of heresies, dissidences, different beliefs and abrupt amalgams?
ESTE SINTAXA LUI DIMITRIE CANTEMIR UN CAZ IZOLAT ÎN LIMBA ROMÂNĂ?
The present paper identifies various types of dislocation in Dimitrie Cantemir’s Divanul. Dislocation occurs in both noun phrases and verb phrases and can be either simple (involving the inversion of syntactically linked elements) or complex (involving forms of anteposition that entail morphosyntactic or syntactic dislocations). As an erudite scholar, Cantemir’s writing style was influenced by Latin, Greek, and probably Turkish syntax. Given that similar dislocations can also be found in Dosoftei’s work, we may assume that the high frequency of syntactic dislocations indicates that word order was not yet fixed in Old Romanian and that linguistic contact played a role in shaping the language of the period under study.
THE SYNTAX OF INDIVIDUATING DIMINUTIVES IN ROMANIAN
The paper investigates a special use of diminutive affixes in Romanian. In this use, when attached to mass nouns of the type unt ‘butter’, carne ‘meat’, pască ‘Easter cake’, diminutives yield countable nouns of the type untulețe / ‘butter.DIM.PL’ / ‘packets of butter’, cărnițe / ‘meat.DIM.PL’ / ‘steaks’, păscuțe / ‘Easter cake.DIM.PL’ / ‘pieces of Easter cake’. These countable nouns unambiguously refer to units of stuff, as opposed to kinds of stuff. Following in essence De Belder (2008, 2011), the paper proposes that, in contexts where the count-unit reading arises as a result of diminutive affixation, the respective affixes head their own projection SizeP. In all other cases of diminutive affixation, diminutive affixes are specifiers of a ClassP projection (Fábregas 2013).
LEGEA TRUPULUI – POVESTEA UNEI VIEȚI. O CARTE DE DEBUT JUCATĂ PREA TÂRZIU
The Body’s Rule – The Tale of a Life, the first novel written by Agârbiceanu (in 1911), only appeared in book form in 1926. The novel – which held significant potential for the chronology of the Romanian novel at the time of its serialized publication (1912) – was initially "forgotten", due to the political instability preceding World War I, and further delayed by the Great Union of 1918 and its author's subsequent turn toward politics and journalism. By the time of its book publication in 1926, the literary landscape had changed so dramatically that the novel quickly became obsolete. However, when restored to its historical place, it reveals itself as a relevant work for the early stages of Realism and a worthy representative of the 20th century Central European fiction.
L’ETICA DELLA DISILLUSIONE: LA LEZIONE DEI MORALISTI IN CIORAN
Emil Cioran’s work is marked by a tension between classical moralism and a radical questioning of subjective identity. This article explores the relationship between Cioran and the tradition of French moralists, from La Rochefoucauld and Chamfort to Joubert, highlighting their decisive role in shaping his writing and intellectual transformation. The transition from Romanian to French was not merely a stylistic exercise for Cioran but a true form of exile—a self-effacement that enabled him to develop a new ethical framework. Through an analysis of his statements and critical reception, this study demonstrates how Cioran, while adopting the formal rigor and psychological acuity of the moralists, ultimately forged an ethics of disillusionment that sets him apart from the tradition he inherited. Central to this reflection is his encounter with Benjamin Fondane, a tragic and pivotal figure in his intellectual journey, marking the final renunciation of ideological remnants and the embrace of a writing practice grounded in uprootedness and the suspension of judgment.
RESCRIEREA TRECUTULUI PRIN FILTRUL PROZEI ROMANTICE ÎN ROMANUL ROMÂNESC CONTEMPORAN
The present article aims at deciphering some of the functions and meanings of the so-called historical turn in Romanian contemporary fiction. In this attempt, we’ll analyse two recently published novels, Mircea Cărtărescu’s Theodoros (2022), respectively Simona Antonescu’s Chiajna din Casa Muşatinilor (2023), that can be read not only as “exoticized” representations of the past, but also as parables that reflect upon the consequences entailed by the obsession with exercising absolute power.
DESPRE ISTORIA UNUI CUVÂNT VECHI: ROM. BUZĂ
The long history of debates on the topic provides a wealth of information on the first attestations, the semantics, the lexical productivity, the dialectal spread, the onomastic transfer, and the origin of the Romanian term buză (Engl. ‘lip’; ‘edge’; ‘river bank’), information which is unfortunately scattered in various journal articles that are not easy to access. The aim of the paper is to give an overview of the existing studies on the Romanian lexeme buză, to highlight the most relevant conclusions, and to make brief comments wherever we consider it necessary.
FROM LE DUC D’ALBE TO LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES: METAMORPHOSES OF A LIBRETTO
This paper proposes a comparative study of the libretto of Le Duc d’Albe, planned by Donizetti in 1839-1840 but never created during his lifetime, and that of Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes, created in Paris in 1855 (by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier). This article examines: the correspondence – or not – between the characters and their evolution; the progression of the structure and the plot from one work to the other – where Verdi intervenes, while also keeping in mind the intermediate plot envisaged by Scribe and focusing on three aspects that stand out more (the scene of the recognition of the son, the question of marriage, and the insurrectional denouement); the scores and the place of versification in their arrangement.
SOGLIE MOBILI: TITOLI CAMBIATI E STRATEGIE EDITORIALI NEL ROMANZO ROMENO SOTTO IL REGIME COMUNISTA
The article analyses title changes in Romanian novels written between 1948 and 1989, a period defined by the establishment and consolidation of the communist regime. Using data from Dicționarul cronologic al romanului românesc de la origini până la 2000 (DCRR), the study examines how title changes indicate the evolving dynamics of the literary field under ideological control. Rather than examining the relationship between titles and their designated texts, the focus is on the process that led to these modifications, revealing the constant negotiation between authorial intent, ideological constraints, and editorial strategies. Title modifications are classified into two main categories: those introduced in later editions or reprints, and those made before the first publication of a novel. These paratextual interventions, which are often influenced by changing political and cultural contexts, demonstrate the adaptability of the paratext, as theorized by Gérard Genette, as a transitional space that mediates between the ‘ideal identity’ of the work and the socio-historical reality of its audience.
PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE: FROM ORAL NARRATIVES TO COMMUNITY WEBSITES
This paper examines personal narratives of survivors of the wreck of the Empire Patrol, a British ship that was returning 497 inhabitants of Castellorizo, a Greek island in the southeastern Aegean, to their homeland in September 1945, after they had spent two years in a refugee camp in Nuseirat, Gaza. Led by a survivor who was a child at the time of the shipwreck, several survivors memorialized the event by creating a community website, www.empirepatrol.com, in Australia, where their compatriots had already established migrant communities prewar. In this paper, I focus on the survivors’ website-based traumatic narratives and compare them to oral narratives regarding the shipwreck which I recorded while conducting multi-sited, longitudinal and collaborative ethnographic research among the Castellorizians in Australia and in Greece. I explore “orality” in the case of website narratives by examining the new context and symbolism and the performative elements involved, and the community bonds forged among contributors and visitors to the website. I also examine the impact of these digital survivors’ narratives on redefining the sense of belonging and communal identity among Australian-born Castellorizians and on rendering the World War II history of the Castellorizians part of wider public history in Australia.
personal narratives of traumatic experience
LO SCETTICISMO TRA RAZIONALITÀ E DISILLUSIONE. BERTRAND RUSSELL ED EMIL CIORAN
This study offers a comparative analysis of the scepticism of Bertrand Russell and Emil Cioran, highlighting two distinct traditions of philosophical scepticism: Academic and Pyrrhonian. While scepticism has long been debated in philosophy, this paper focuses on the complementary epistemological and existential implications of these views in a modern context. Russell represents methodological scepticism, using doubt as a critical tool to pursue more reliable knowledge without falling into absolute relativism. Conversely, Cioran adopts doubt as an existential stance, suspending judgment in line with Pyrrhonian scepticism and questioning the possibility of absolute truth, expressing deep disenchantment with reality and knowledge. In an age dominated by positivism and trust in scientific and media certainties, balancing Russell’s rational scepticism with Cioran’s scepticism of disenchantment offers valuable insight. This tension helps distance us from both dogmatic rationalism and extreme nihilism, providing a fresh perspective on scepticism’s role in contemporary thought.
RÉMI BRAGUE, Modern cu moderaţie. Timpurile moderne sau inventarea unei înșelăciuni
Care este atitudinea justă pe care o putem avea faţă de trecut și în ce fel poate fi el reconstituit printr-un discurs care, fidel adevărului, nu ar trebui să derive nici dintr-o sensibilitate exclusiv umanistă, dar nici din pretinsa acurateţe a metodelor scientiste ori tehniciste ce riscă, deși parţial valide, să amputeze realitatea vie a fenomenelor în ordinea lor firească? Întrebarea în jurul căreia se articulează analiza lui Rémi Brague din Modern cu moderaţie. Timpurile moderne sau inventarea unei înșelăciuni vizează, în primul rând, înţelegerea unei percepţii legate de timpurile care ne precedă, din acumularea cărora se cristalizează un orizont de tradiţii, de inerţii în gândire, de gesturi și de feluri de a califica existenţa, prezentă ori apusă, cu care suntem în rezonanţă, frecvent în mod inconștient. Cele mai multe repere pe care le avem sunt, de fapt, rezultate din evaluări străine de noi, modelate în momentele unei istorii la care nu avem acces, pe care nu o putem, deci, chestiona altfel decât mediat, dar care stimulează nemediat un tip de atitudine prin care ne definim ca indivizi aparţinând unei epoci.
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LIVIU GROZA, De pe vremea lui Pazvante. Imagini ale vieţii din trecut în expresii românești
Lucrarea De pe vremea lui Pazvante. Imagini ale vieţii din trecut în expresii românești face parte din categoria studiilor dedicate de către Liviu Groza frazeologiei limbii române. Un domeniu lingvistic bine delimitat și de actualitate, frazeologia reprezintă o temă pe cât de interesantă, pe atât de dragă profesorului Groza, care a abordat-o nu numai în numeroase contribuţii știinţifice publicate în ţară și în străinătate, ci și în timpul prelegerilor de la cursul Frazeologie românească, ţinut pentru aproape douăzeci de ani la masteratul de limba română de la Facultatea de Litere (Universitatea din București).
SALVATORE ATTARDO, The Linguistics of Humor. An Introduction
Salvatore Attardo is one of the most important scholars for linguistic approach to humour. His books and articles have been highly influential since the early 1990s: “Script Theory revis(it)ed: Joke similarity and joke representation model” (1991, with Victor Raskin), Linguistic Theories of Humor (1994), Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis (2001), to mention only a few. He also edited The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (2014) and The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor (2017). His 2020 book, The Linguistics of Humor. An introduction, is written with a pedagogical aim (as claimed by the author in the Preface), for both students and scholars interested in humour but lacking the linguistic background.
A FEMINIST EXPLORATION OF MEDEEA IANCU’S POETRY
Since 2010, ideology has become more present in Romanian contemporary literature, denouncing the literary canon and its function in nowadays society. Female authors started to be more committed to a feminist agenda, which resulted into a process of (re)claiming female identities and experiences and also creating new forms of defining what being a woman means. After the 1989 Romanian Revolution, artists finally use their right to freedom of speech, being more involved into the social and political aspects of art and society. In this paper, I shall focus on Medeea Iancu’s poetry, analysing her discourse and how she develops a feminist agenda in Romania. I shall also point out the fact that her discourse evolves from Divina tragedie [The Divine Tragedy] (2011) and Cîntarea care a biruit toate cîntările [The Song that Overcame All Songs] (2015) to what is known as a feminist manifesto in Delacroix este tabu: Suita romînească [Delacroix is Taboo: The Romanian Suite] (2017) and Delacroix este tabu: Amendamentele lirice [Delacroix is Taboo: The Lyrical Amendments] (2019). Nevertheless, in this research I shall showcase the aspects that are representative for the feminist literary movement in Romania, focusing mainly on Medeea Iancu, as she embodies the image of the feminist poet.
The paper investigates a corpus of 72 recent -bil derivatives, used mainly in contemporary Romanian journalese (Croitor 2021). The paper shows that -bil adjectives in Romanian fall into two categories: fully eventive adjectives, characterized by the presence of by-phrases and/or adverbial event modifiers and fully stative adjectives, simply indicating a property of the referent (Oltra-Massuet 2013). A second result of the analysis is the fact that the boundary between the two identified classes is blurry, in the sense that -bil adjectives actually form a continuum from eventive adjectives to fully stative -bil adjectives (Wasak 2021). Thirdly, the productivity of -bil can be explained by means of usefulness, fashion, and nameability (Plag 2002).
STORIES OF A COLLAPSING FUTURE. REPRESENTATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS IN MAJA LUNDE’S NOVELS
The article proposes an overview of two novels written by the Norwegian writer Maja Lunde, through notions such as ‘dystopia’, ‘trans-corporeality’ (Alaimo 2018) and `heterotopy’ (Foucault 1984) that showcase the presence of various beings and spaces interlinked and existing in a constantly changing environment. The History of Bees gathers three stories from separate timelines in order to emphasize the evolution of the relation between people and the environment, while The End of the Ocean tackles problems of desertification and dreadful effects of the capitalist system. Both books are essential for understanding a new type of catastrophe, which has been explained as a “catastrophe without event” (Horn 2014), due to its graduality that is a result of climate transformations generated by various industries and people’s harmful attitudes towards their natural surroundings. Memory and objects are also central coordinates in analysing how the future actualizes the past, since the characters rest their survival on a book (The History of Bees) and on a boat (The End of the Ocean). Moreover, Foucault’s concept of ‘heterotopy’ is illustrative of the liminal state in which the protagonists exist. The catastrophic spatiality encapsulates trauma, the will to transgress time, and the absence of the beloved ones. Survival is the narrative thread that opens the communication between different generations, and loneliness or death are pivotal elements for recreating the present, which, in Lunde’s novels, is seen as unfavourable, but nevertheless having ingrained a sense of hope for the future.
REZONANŢE ÎNTRE CONCEPŢIA NON-OEDIPIANĂ A LUI GHERASIM LUCA ȘI POSTUMANISMUL CRITIC
The article aims to point out that Gherasim Luca’s concept of non-oedipal existence resonates with the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, anticipating the nomad thought and the contemporary posthuman critical theory – as formulated by Rosi Braidotti – centred on a critical posthumanism and an affirmative politics. The key-concept of Gherasim Luca, already present in his Romanian work, is that of “Non-Oedipus”. It’s a radical view of existence that anticipates by almost 30 years the theoretical achievements of Deleuze and Guattari’s works Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus.
IL FILO DI ARIANNA TRA MITO E FOLKLORE. APPUNTI DI METODO A PARTIRE DA UNA FIABA ROMENA DEL TIPO ATU 874* ARIADNE-THREAD
This article aims to explore some possible connections between the ancient myth of Ariadne and folk narratives of later periods. To this end, it adopts a perspective based on the types and motifs approach, by employing essential tools used in contemporary folkloric research, such as Uther 2004 and Thompson 1955-1958. It starts by discussing the usefulness and limitations of this approach when it comes to comparisons between folklore and antiquity and continues with the analysis of a rather peculiar Romanian fairy tale, the only one registered in Romania as containing the motif “R121.5 Ariadne's Thread”. The singularity of this text in the Romanian folk culture is met by an equal distinctiveness when confronted with other ancient and modern narratives containing the action of traversing a labyrinth by means of a thread. Therefore, this Romanian fairy tale provides us with the opportunity to draw attention to some of the inconsistencies present in the typological approach commonly adopted by some recent studies dedicated to folklore in the ancient world. However, if we managed to resolve some of the problems inherent in the concept of type, the search for motivic similarities could stimulate a different kind of comparison between classics and folklore, thus opening the road towards new interpretations.
UMANESIMO E CONTRORIFORMA NEI DIALOGHI PIACEVOLI DI STEFANO GUAZZO
In 1586, the writer Stefano Guazzo publishes Dialoghi piacevoli. The treatise is made up of a collection of dialogues and has among its protagonists the “Prencipe della Valacchia Maggiore”, Petru Cercel, indicated as a model of the ideal prince. The work was conceived during the implementation of the rules of the Council of Trent: that political, cultural, and religious system defined in historiography as the Counter-Reformation. Stefano Guazzo outlines the system of courts, in which the relations between the prince and courtiers are organised as a true “forma del vivere”. The writer constantly refers to the values and ideal questions of humanism, such as the formation of the prince and the courtier, or the relationship between letters and arms, according to the writings of ancient Latin and Greek writers. At the same time, he has to adapt the thought and the literature of ancient writers with the principles imposed by the Counter- Reformation. In his book, one can also see an attempt to define the European space from Spain and France to Poland and Wallachia as Catholic.
ANALYSE COMPARATIVE DU MARQUAGE DIFFÉRENTIEL DES COMPLÉMENTS DIRECT ET D’AGENT EN ROUMAIN (II)
This is the second part of a more general research on the comparison between Differential (Direct) Object (DOM) and Differential Agent Marking (DAM) in (contemporary) Romanian. Previously, I have showed that DOM is an optional phenomenon (with a few exceptions for certain types of Direct Objects). DOM is sensitive to factors like animacy, specificity, and topicality. In the present study, I will show that DAM is only sensitive to animacy, but neither to specificity nor to topicality. Additionally, DAM seems to be affected by language register, namely the official / administrative one.
DE LA ROCINANTE LA TAMAGOTCHI. X.AI. NOTE DESPRE IMAGINARUL UTOPIC
On July 12th 2023, Elon Musk announced the creation of the xAi corporation, the aim of which is, according to the program put forth by its author, “understanding the true nature of the Universe”. 507 years after the publication of Thomas Morus' Utopia, the trailblazing text of a concept which has moulded the post-Medieval European imaginary, the questions related to the morphology of the territories which we occupy or which we invent for ourselves are being reformulated. The present essay sets out to analyse several elements of a technoscientific flow of ideas which, throughout half a millennium, have been competing, beyond the cover of fiction, against the model of Christian monotheism.
RENDERING THE BEST RESULTS INTO ROMANIAN – A MATTER OF TYPOLOGICAL VARIATION
English (Germanic) and Romanian (Romance) are typologically different in the expression of both change-of-location and change-of-state events (cf. Talmy 1985, 2000). English favours Goal of Motion (GM) and resultative constructions, which combine manner verbs with directional PPs and Result Phrases, respectively; Romanian typically opts for inherently directed motion and change-of-state verbs to achieve the same goals. At the same time, the existing typological differences have been shown to impact both the translation strategies rendering change events, and the syntactic structures they produce (Slobin 2004, 2005, 2006; Capelle 2012; Alonso 2018 et al.). The present article examines the strategies used by professional translators to translate resultatives into Romanian, and the resulting syntactic patterns, shown to be dependent on the type of resultative translated (fake/true). It demonstrates that the mostly compensatory techniques generate structures which, overall, reflect Talmy's lexicalization patterns for Romance and support the uniform treatment of GM and resultatives crosslinguistically. It also argues that the higher syntactic/semantic variation of resultatives (vs. GM) is responsible for the higher number of strategies and patterns translating them.
TRISTAN TZARA’S SHIFT FROM SYMBOLISM TO FUTURISM, TO DADAISM, 1912-1916
My paper will present Tristan Tzara’s artistic development from his early Symbolist days via Futurism to his Dadaist days in Zurich. In particular, I shall discuss how Futurism lingered on in the first phase of Dadaism and in Tzara’s Dada poetics (1916-1918). I shall first analyse some traits of his Symbolist poetry, composed in the 1910s, until his departure from Romania. I shall argue that his orientation towards Futurism was possible thanks to his Symbolist beginnings, an aesthetic the young Tzara shared with many Futurists, including F.T. Marinetti. Following a reconsideration of the network of cultural relations forged by the Romanian writer between the young Dada group in Zurich and members of the Futurist movement in Rome, Naples and Mantua, or more precisely: between anti-Marinettian representatives of Futurism who edited the magazines Noi, Le pagine, Procellaria and Brigata, I shall demonstrate that Tzara continued to be open to Futurist influences, albeit from the Florentine and Ferrarese strands, which were more moderate and less dogmatic than the Milanese circle around Marinetti. Examining some Tzara works in Cabaret Voltaire and Dada, I shall demonstrate certain Futurist affinities in his Dadaist production, in particular with regard to the graphictypographic features of his poems and the performative tactics in his theatrical practice.
OBSERVAŢII ASUPRA LIMBII ROMÂNE. P. NEMOIANU, PĂRERILE UNUIA CARE N-A ÎNVĂŢAT LA ŞCOALA ROMÂNEASCĂ
In his study, the author aims to discuss the ideas regained from the lines of few microtexts documented in the pages of a brochure, named Limba românească. Părerea unuia care n-a învăţat la şcoala românescă [The Romanian language. Opinions of someone who didn’t study at a Romanian school] and published by the politician P. Nemoianu. The fragments he selected are primarily linguistic, choosing several topics concerning the condition and the nature of Romanian language during the interwar period. These linguistic notes, somehow subjective, were not discussed in specialized studies until now, which determined us to investigate them furthermore. The main purpose of the analysis is to see which were the options in acquiring the Romanian language and how it was perceived in relation with other cultural languages (Latin or French, for example), in the aforementioned period.
LIMBA FĂRĂ LOCUIRE. EMIL CIORAN ȘI EUGÈNE IONESCO: DOUĂ CAZURI DE EXIL LINGVISTIC
This study aims to investigate the exile of Eugène Ionesco and Emil Cioran as a function of the linguistic modifications that occurred in their writing when they abandoned their homeland and their mother tongue, revolutionizing the ethical and aesthetic paradigms of the universal literary landscape. Dealing with their own history and making the repressed past re-emerge have allowed these authors to interrogate the present in the new language acquired starting from the Romanian-speaking literary space. This has led to various phenomena: transformations in the field of creation, starting from the break with the Romanian language, a subjective re-articulation in the field of the foreign language, starting from the triple psychoanalytic arrangement of the imaginary, the symbolic and the real, and the invention of new individualities and styles of thinking.
MIRCEA PĂDURARU, 2023, Fondul interzis. Incursiune în antropologia folclorului licențios. Volumul I
Studiul lui Mircea Păduraru reprezintă un demers deosebit de curajos, deoarece își propune, direct și asumat, să demonteze unul dintre cele mai vechi și mai periculoase mituri ale etnologiei naționale, țăranul român. Un veritabil bun sălbatic autohton, țăranul român a fost dintotdeauna și, din nefericire, continuă să fie un construct ideologic: blând, primitor, trăind într-un cadru bucolic și într-o profundă comuniune cu natură, cântând doine acompaniat de fluier și de bucium. Această imagine a fost instrumentalizată politic de toate regimurile. A apărut pentru prima oară în pașoptism, a avut, de asemenea, rezonanță în comunism și încă mai este folosită și astăzi. Realitatea este însă cu totul alta. Primii care sau lovit de ea au fost membrii echipelor Școlii Sociologice de la București, care au văzut și, poate cel mai important, au consemnat starea dezolantă, dar cât se poate de reală în care se afla țăranul român: igienă precară, alimentație de subzistență, analfabetism, mortalitate ridicată, în special în rândul nou-născuților, vulnerabilitate față de cataclisme naturale etc.
CLAUDE GAUVARD, 2023, Passionnément Moyen Âge. Plaidoyer pour le petit peuple
De ce și-au iubit francezii regii și cum s-a putut perpetua un model al subordonării de-a lungul multor secole, înainte ca Revoluția de la 1789, an al unei comoții sociale, să producă, în condiții parțial neelucidate, o schimbare radicală a raporturilor și a ierarhiilor umane? În ce măsură imaginarul privilegiilor și al pragmaticii afective pe care regele îl întreținea cu supușii săi a contribuit la perpetuarea sentimentului monarhic, cu care, înainte de a-și susține individualitatea sub influența programelor subiectiviste ale Renașterii, atâtea generații s-au identificat și în care au crezut? Când anume se naște sentimentul național în Franța și ce cadre ori evenimente îi favorizează cristalizarea?