As intellectual projects, literary histories hold a particular significance in Romanian culture; they recover authors and relegate them to anonymity, make and break canons, and promote and undermine ideologies and political ...

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 ...

As Teodora Dumitru (2016) has convincingly argued in the case of Romanian literary critic Eugen Lovinescu, the evaluation of literature he proposed along his History of Contemporary Romanian Literature (1926-1929) was ...

This article focuses on the (dis)continuities between the German-language work of Paul Celan (integrated into a “large” literature where he becomes “Europe’s foremost poet after World War II”, in George Steiner’s opinion) ...

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 ...

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 ...

World History, Literary History: Postmodernism and After. The basic question Christian Moraru raises in his contribution is about the direction in which literary history and criticism overall may be going after postmodernism. ...

A szürrealizmus elsõ éveitõl kezdve a váratlan találkozásokra épített. A Surrealism Beyond Borders ezeknek a találkozásoknak kifejezetten geográfiaikartográfiai keretet ad. A szürrealizmuskutatás legutóbbi évtizedeinek az ...

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 ...