In the present essay, I investigate the influence exerted by the German philosophers Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841) and Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) on the first theory of poetry in the history of Romanian literature. ...

The following article will attempt a partly quantitative analysis of the Romanian novel from 1844 to 1947, drawing on the archive of the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel. I will try to deliver an insight into how a ...

The present paper traces the evolution of children’s literature in Romania from the nineteenth century to the present day. It suggests the existence of four phases that are associated with the political and ideological ...

One of the earliest and most important works of vampire literature to be translated into Romanian is Jules Verne’s Le château des Carpathes (1892), which saw no less than two renditions in 1897, the year in which Bram ...

Besides being canonized as Romania’s “national poet,” Mihai Eminescu was hailed as the “complete man of Romanian culture” and the “absolute Romanian,” among a profusion of encomiastic praises. Eminescu was immortalized in ...

A buzzword of the first post-Cold War decade, “transition” held out the promise of a fresh start for most countries of the former Eastern Bloc and, as such, seemed preferable to the inanely retweeted “end of history.”¹ ...

In the present article, I address two novelistic productions set in late 19th century and early 20th century Transylvania, discussing the different intersections of class, ethnicity, and culture underlying the constructed ...

In this paper I investigate how the interpretation of the Romantic poet Mihai Eminescu’ work verifies the European transition from a rationalist conception of “genius” (according to which “genius” is a phenomenon subjected ...

The present contribution discusses the way in which the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen was imported, critically discussed, and staged in Romania in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and argues that his ...

While the Anglo-Saxon intertext is the most clear one in Mircea Ivănescu’s poetry, the French and German intertexts are at least as present and fertile. Proust and Camus, on the one hand, and Rilke and Goethe, on the other, ...